Intertextuality Between Biblical Texts and Contemporary Culture : Essays in Honor of Caroline H. C. M. Vander Stichele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosman, Frank G.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2026.

Summary:

This edited collection argues that the Bible remains culturally relevant within our contemporary, secular society.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Untitled

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: The Communication-Dynamics of Intertextuality: A Liber Amicarum et Amicorum for Caroline Vander Stichele

Text as Communication

The Location of the Intertextuality

Analyzing Intertextuality

Semantics

Narrative Plot

Communication

An Overview of the Contributions to This Festschrift

Chapter 1: The Book of Ben Sira and Modern Illustrated Translations: Graphic Artists as Beholders of the Text

Facts and Figures

A List of Illustrated Texts

Historical and Geographical Settings

Violet E. Brunton

Burkhard Mangold

Jakob Steinhardt

Added Value?

Conclusion

Chapter 2: We Are Legion: An Intertextual Analysis of "Legion" and "A House Divided" in the Mass Effect Game Series

Video Games as Ludonarrative Communication

A Geth Called Legion

A House Divided

The Position of the Player

Chapter 3: A Black Jesus-Figure in The Book of Clarence: Genre and Allusionism

Intertextuality, Quotation, and Allusion

A Tale of One Christ-Figure, Two Jesuses, and Many Messiahs

Conclusion: Hold Space for the Teachings of Clarence

Chapter 4: On the Mountains of Spice: Imaginary Landscapes in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and in the Song of Songs

Space in the Song of Songs

Space in Brokeback Mountain

Chapter 5: Multiple Dogs: The Power of the Dog and Psalm 22:20

Plot

The Ending and Psalm 22:20

The "Dog" Motif and Kinds of Masculinity

Chapter 6: The Name of God Revisited: Moses According to Johannes Wickert

What Is Depicted in the Painting?

Action Is Reaction: How Moses Becomes God's Assistant

Returning to the Painting: Or How Moses Has to Step into God's Shoes

Concluding Remarks.

Chapter 7: "Let Us Make Biodiversity in Our Image": The Dutch Prayer Day for Crops and Labour Revised in the Light of the Climate Crisis

Intertextual and Interperformance Analysis

An Introduction to the Dutch Prayer Day Tradition and the Prayer Day for Crops and Biodiversity

The Prayer Day for Crops and Biodiversity

Intertextual and Interperformance Analysis of the Prayer Day for Crops and Biodiversity

Biodiversity as Imago Dei

Reintroducing the Kyrie-Litany into the Context of Climate Change

Praying for Endangered Species and Ecological Mourning

Funding

Chapter 8: Contemporary Performance as a Heuristic Device for Understanding Variant Readings in New Testament Manuscripts: Mark 9:11-13 as a Test Case

Contemporary Performance as a Heuristic Device. Mark 9:11-13 as a Test Case

The Interpretive Problem and Its Solution in Contemporary Performance

Important Differences at the Level of Wording

Important Differences at the Non-Verbal Level

The Interpretive Problem and Its Solution in the Manuscript Tradition

The Interpretive Problem of Mark 9:11-13: Some Final Observations

Chapter 9: The Physical Appearance of Jesus: His Visage and Its Importance

The Earliest Information on the Appearance of Jesus

The Epistle of Lentulus Fills the Gap

Iconography: From Shepherd and Teacher to Pantocrator

Destro and Pesce on Jesus's Body

The Real Jesus

Portraying Jesus: Reception History and the Search for Tangible Evidence

Chapter 10: Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Caroline Street's Creation Sixth Day Land Creatures and Man: The Intertextuality Between Both "Texts" from a Communication Perspective

The Communication Within Genesis 1:1-2:3

The Communication Within Street's Creation Sixth Day.

Intertextuality: The Communication between Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Street's Creation Sixth Day Land Creatures and Man

Method

Comparing Arche-Text and Pheno-Text from a Communication-Oriented Perspective

Conclusions

Chapter 11: In the Image of God He Created Them: Divine Presence Through Light, Color, and Likeness in Two Medieval Works of Art

Andrei Rublev's "The Hospitality of Abraham"

The Theophany Mosaic in the Hosios David in Thessaloniki

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 12: The Sixth Sense and the Bible: Reality, Awareness, and a Child

The Sixth Sense and Awareness

The Sixth Sense and Coming to Terms with One's Reality

The Sixth Sense and Children

Conclusion: Impact of The Sixth Sense

Chapter 13: The Axe Laid to the Root: A Biblical Expression and Its Reception in Early Christianity

Some Exegetical Observations

An Early Christian Interpretation

The Meaning of ἀξίνη

The Meaning of ἐκκόπτειν

The Origin of the Image of Uprooting a Tree

Chapter 14: Enigmatic Mystery and Hieroglyphic Alchemy: An Exploration of the Sculptures on Sodom and Gomorrah by Yehuda Levy-Aldema

Before the Word Is the Sculpture

Within Each Sculpture Rest Bountiful Biblical Meanings

Biblical Visual Exegesis for the Here and Now

Move into an Exhibit Hall: A Concluding Remark

Chapter 15: Luke 1:5-80 and Jim Janknegt's Painting The Visitation: An Intertextual Communication Analysis

Communication in Luke 1:5-80: Preliminary Remarks

Communication in Luke 1:5-38

Communication in Luke 1:39-56 (the Part of the Read-Text That Is Mainly Depicted in The Visitation): Two Information Discrepancies and an Aside

Communication in Luke 1:57-80

Communication in The Visitation: Preliminary Remarks

Communication in The Visitation: The Title of the Painting

Communication in The Visitation: The Painting.

Intertextual Relations from a Communication Perspective: How The Visitation Rereads Luke 1:5-80

Chapter 16: Luke 10:25-37 and Constant's La Samaritaine: A Communication-Oriented Analysis

Communication-Oriented Analysis of Luke 10:25-37

The Motivation for the Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Parable

The Lesson of the Parable

Communication-Oriented Analysis of the Parable

Communication-Oriented Analysis of the Painting La Samaritaine

Composition of the Painting

Depicted Characters

Detailed Communication-Oriented Analysis of the Painting

A Deeper Dimension: Once More, a Case of Intertextuality

Chapter 17: Genesis 22:1-19 and Alan Falk's The Binding of Isaac: An Intertextual Communication Analysis

The Position of the TIR in Genesis 22:1-19

The Position of the TIR in Alan Falk's The Binding of Isaac

Intertextual Relations from a Communication Perspective

Chapter 18: The Cosmic Johannine Jesus: Intertextuality with Science-Fiction Space-Traveling Messiahs

Johannine Spatial Cosmology

Jesus on Mars by Philip José Farmer (1979)

The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis by Michael Bishop (1983)

Index of References

Bible

Old Testament

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Judges

1 Samuel

1 Kingdoms LXX

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Song of Songs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Malachi

Ben Sira

New Testament

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Hebrews

Revelation

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

4 Maccabees

New Testament Pseudepigrapha

Acts of Andrew

Acts of John

Acts of Peter

Gospel of Philip

Gospel of Thomas

Philo and Josephus

Philo, De agricultura

Philo, De Deo

Philo, De mutatione nominum.

Philo, Quod deterius potiori insidari soleat

Philo, Legatio ad Gaium

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Josephus, Jewish War

Rabbinic Literature

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer

Eikha Rabbah

Shemot Rabbah

Ancient World

Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes

Lactantius, Divinarum institutionum libri VII The Divine

Polybius, Histories

Seneca, Epistulae morales

Christian World

Arrian, Epicteti dissertationes

Artemidorus Daldianus, Onirocritica

Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes

Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus

Clement of Alexandria, Quis dives salvetur

Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes

Jerome, Epistulae

John Chrysostom, Homiliae in Matthaeum

Justin, Dialogus cum Tryphone

Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of John

Origen, Contra Celsum

Origen, Homilies on Jeremiah

Origen, Homilies on Luke

(Pseudo-)Athanasius, Quaestiones in Sacram Srcipturam

Pseudo-Macarius, Sermones

Index of Modern Authors

About the Editors and Contributors.

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ISBN:

9798765163733