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18 - The Bible and Visual Exegesis

from Part III - Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

By
Ben Quash
Edited by
Ian Boxall  and
Bradley C. Gregory
Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter focuses on recent scholarly discussion of how the visual arts may be considered capable of “visual exegesis” (a term first coined by the art historian Paolo Berdini and now widely used). It argues that, when we read the Bible in the company of visual art, we are asked to countenance our implication in each other, in a single world full of many meanings, in the shared conditions that sustain human communication across difference and in the encompassing existential questions that the biblical texts pose.

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exegesisvisualartreception
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 335 - 355
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Berdini, Paolo. The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Exum, J. Cheryl. Art as Biblical Commentary: Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus. London: T&T Clark, 2019.Google Scholar
Exum, J. Cheryl, and Nutu, Ela, eds. Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Fletcher, Michelle. Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Imitating the Past. London: T&T Clark, 2018.Google Scholar
Joynes, Christine E., ed. Perspectives on the Passion: Encountering the Bible through the Arts. London: T&T Clark, 2007.Google Scholar
Lieb, Michael, Mason, Emma, Roberts, Jonathan, and Rowland, Christopher, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
O’Hear, Natasha F. H. Contrasting Images of the Book of Revelation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art: A Case Study in Visual Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O’Kane, Martin. Painting the Text: The Artist as Biblical Interpreter. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Robbins, Vernon K., Melion, Walter S., and Jeal, Roy R., eds. The Art of Visual Exegesis: Rhetoric, Texts, Images. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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