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The poetics of visuality : ekphrasis, material agency, and the visual imagination in biblical antiquity / Justin J. White.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Justin J., 1983- author.
- Series:
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 0940-4155 182.
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 182
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ekphrasis.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible as literature.
- Hebrew literature--History and criticism.
- Hebrew literature.
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
- Jews.
- ekphrasis.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Rhetoric in the Bible.
- Visualization in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Physical Description:
- xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Ekphrasis, material agency, and the visual imagination in biblical antiquity
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Justin J. White explores the nature of images in ancient Israel through a reconceptualization of the relationship between image and text. He proposes that in ancient Israel, texts evoked images as a core part of their rhetoric. Rather than conceptualizing texts and images as ontologically or functionally distinct media, he argues that both media are mixed media even while neither medium is reducible to the other. In order to make this argument, he focuses on the visual aspects of textual rhetoric--what he terms 'the poetics of visuality.' He builds his argument across three text-specific axes of visual rhetoric: ekphrasis, the visual imagination and material agency. He makes the claim that each of these three axes are endemic to Israelite literature, and mutually contribute to the formation of a robust ontology of visual representation in ancient Israel." -- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2020. See title page verso and "Acknowledgements", page [v]
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-265) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783161633447
- 316163344X
- OCLC:
- 1451100019
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