The Bible in Film - the Bible And Film - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004151907 ISBN 13: 9789004151901

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Exploring the interface between the Bible and film offers exciting opportunities for both biblical scholars and moviegoers alike. The eleven contributors to this provocative and wide-ranging collection deal critically and creatively both with films about the Bible and biblical characters, including the recent controversial The Passion of the Christ, and with a wide range of contemporary films in which biblical themes play a significant, and sometimes surprising, role.

Originally published as issue 1-2 of Volume 14 (2006) of Brill's journal Biblical Interpretation.

About this title

About the Author:

J. Cheryl Exum is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is the Executive Editor of Biblical Interpretation and a Director of Sheffield Phoenix Press. The author of numerous scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible, her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative: Arrows of the Almighty, Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives, Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women, Was sagt das Richterbuch den Frauen?, and, most recently, The Song of Songs: A Commentary. She is currently writing a book entitled Cultural Industry: The Bible and the Arts.

Review:

"... the reader is richly rewarded by reading and re-reading these essays. [..] Hopefully these essays will encourage readers to initiate their own conversations between bibles and film." - Michael Carden, in: The Bible and Critical Theory, 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004151907
• ISBN 13: 9789004151901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Exum J. Cheryl