The Edinburgh companion to the Bible and the arts / edited by Stephen Prickett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prickett, Stephen, Author.

Contributor:

Prickett, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts in the Bible.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christian drama in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 576 pages), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Summary:

An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. Specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call ‘the’ Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic.Key FeaturesDivided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and LiteratureGenerously illustratedCovers aesthetic interpretations of specific biblical books; of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a whole; the transmission of biblical texts; various bindings and illustrations of Bibles – in response to pressures as diverse as Islamic craftsmanship and the English ReformationIncludes biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literatureSpans the earliest days of the Christian era to the present

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FIGURES

PLATES

CONTRIBUTORS

1 INTRODUCTION

I: Inspiration and Theory

2 ‘WHAT HAS ATHENS TO DO WITH JERUSALEM?’ THE BIBLICAL CHAIN-GANG

3 HEBREW AESTHETICS AND JEWISH BIBLICAL EXEGESIS

4 MIGNE’S ACHIEVEMENT AND THE MODERN TRANSMISSION OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS

5 AUGUSTINE ON BEAUTY: A BIBLICAL AESTHETICS

6 SUBLIMITY AS RESISTANCE TO FORM IN THE EARLY MODERN BIBLE

7 ‘A BABEL OF BIBLES’: AESTHETICS, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SINCE 1885

8 LEST THE STORY BE LOST: BIBLICAL FICTION

9 THE BIBLE AND PHENOMENOLOGY

II: Art and Architecture

10 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

11 IMAGES OF CONFLICT: THE ART OF ANTI-JUDAISM IN FIFTH-CENTURY ROME

12 A SHARED TRADITION: THE DECORATED PAGES OF MEDIEVAL BIBLES AND QUR’ANS

13 SPEAKING PICTURES: MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS ART AND ITS VIEWERS

14 THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE CROSS AS THE GREEN TREE

15 ART AND THE RESURRECTION NARRATIVES

16 COVENANTS AND CONNECTIONS: THE SASSETTI CHAPEL, SANTA TRINITA: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST FRANCIS, GHIRLANDAIO, 1479–85

17 WHO FRAMED BATHSHEBA?

18 THE FRESCO DECORATION IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL: BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND THE CHURCH OF ROME

19 THE MATERIALITY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF THE COVERDALE BIBLE (1535) TITLE PAGE IN CONTEXT

20 MOSES AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS ART

21 BLAKE: TEXT AND IMAGE

22 ‘FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM’: PORTRAYING THE BIBLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY STAINED GLASS

23 VAN GOGH: FRAMING A BIBLICAL VISION

24 COVENTRY CATHEDRAL: CONCEPT, REASONS AND REALITY

III: Literature

25 SACRED POETRY: WATTS AND WESLEY

26 THE BIBLE INTERPRETED BY HYMNS

27 THE ART OF UNVEILING: BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE

28 THE DIVINE COMEDY AS THE WORD OF GOD

29 THE MEDIEVAL BIBLE AS LITERATURE

30 HOMER WRITES BACK: RHETORICAL ART AND BIBLICAL EPIC JUSTICE IN PARADISE LOST

31 BIBLICAL AND SEVENTEENTHCENTURY POETRY: THE CASE OF THE PSALMS AND GEORGE HERBERT

32 FROM VIRTUE TO GOODNESS: BIBLICAL VALUES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE

33 THE MIRROR OF THE LAW OF LIBERTY: REFLECTING THE HIDDEN CHRIST IN GEORGE MACDONALD’S LILITH

34 FIGURATIVE LITERALISM: THE IMAGE OF THE CREATOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

35 FROM SATIRE TO SANCTITY: THE PROPHETIC BOOKS IN T. S. ELIOT’S POETRY

36 IMITATIO PILATI ET CHRISTI IN MODERN HISTORICAL DRAMA

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7179-X

OCLC:

1301546402