Images of anonymous women : a semiotic approach to image-text relations in interpretation of ancient Near Eastern art and the Hebrew Bible / by Yeseul Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Yeseul (Biblical scholar), author.

Series:

Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 310.

Orbis biblicus et orientalis, 1015-1850 ; 310

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Song of Solomon--Women.

Bible.

Semiotics and art.

Female nude in art.

Terra-cotta figurines, Ancient.

Women in art.

Women in the Bible.

Bible. Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Iraq--Antiquities.

Iraq.

Semiotics--Religious aspects.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xix, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2026.

Summary:

"Interpretation is a comprehensive act involving various sign systems, both visual and verbal. While viewers of images construct narratives when interpreting them, readers build interpretations of texts through related visual imagery. When images and texts thus become inseparable in interpretation, an adequate method for analyzing both within an isomorphic framework is required. In this volume, Kim introduces semiotics as a transdisciplinary method and presents two semiotic models to support a meta-critical analysis of both textual and visual interpretations. These models are applied to interpretations of two anonymous women from the ancient Near East: a nude woman depicted on an Old Babylonian terracotta plaque, and a woman described in chapter 7 of the biblical Song of Songs. For each case, Kim presents her own interpretation alongside analyses of two contemporary interpretations: those of Zainab Bahrani and Julia Assante for the Old Babylonian figure, and those of Othmar Keel and Fiona Black for the biblical text." Back cover

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.

ISBN:

9789042957732

9042957735

OCLC:

1609839625

Publisher Number:

9789042957732