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In this guest-edited issue of Biblical Reception , edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, contributors examine the reception of the bible in art. Most of the contributions focus on biblical women, or on encounters with women in the bible. The volume is roughly chronological in structure, beginning with two pieces on Eve, one of which compares representations of Eve with those of the Virgin Mary, the other which considers how Eve is presented in Islamic texts and images. Following a contribution on Esther and Sarah the volume moves on to consider New Testament texts, with notable focus on women at the peripheries of society (the woman with the hemorrhage in Mark''s gospel and the woman of Samaria). Attention is also paid to representations of Mary Magdalene and of Judith and Salome. The volume concludes with a piece on apocalyptic imagery and the woman clothed with the sun of Revelation 12. Featuring over 50 high quality color images, this volume provides scholarship of the highest level on biblical art.>
List of contents
Table of Contents Abstracts
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Chapter 1: "Naked or Nurtured: The Breast of Eve, the Breast of Mary"
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University
Chapter 2: "Images of the First Woman: Eve in Islamic
Fal-nama paintings"
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, University of Aberdeen
Chapter 3: "Beauty and Its Beholders: Envisioning Esther and Sarah"
Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University
Chapter 4: "Re-visioning Women in Mark's Gospel"
Christine Joynes, Trinity College, Oxford
Chapter 5: "How Salomé Fell for the Baptist, or John the Baptist as
L'Homme Fatale:
Artistic Interpretations of a Biblical Narrative"
Ela Nutu, Sheffield University
Chapter 6: "Framing a Heroine: Judith's Counterparts in Biblical Villains"
Andrea Sheaffer, Graduate Theological Union
Chapter 7: "Biblical Elegy and
Quattrocento Marian Encomium: Marcantonio
Sabellico's
Carmina de Beata Virgine Maria"
John Nassichuk, University of Western Ontario
Chapter 8: "Theatrical Reliquaries: Afterlives of Saint Mary Magdalene in Early 17th
Century Florence"
Kelley Harness, University of Minnesota
Chapter 9: "Guercino's
Christ and the Woman of Samaria in the Kimbell Art Museum:
The Evolution of Biblical Narrative and Visual Meaning"
Heidi Hornik, Baylor University
Chapter 10: "Picturing the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev 12): Images of
Apocalyptic Conflict, Piety and Strength"
Natasha O'Hear, Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts,
St. Andrews University
About the author
J. Cheryl Exum is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Sheffield University.David Clines is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, UK.Diane Apostolos-Cappadona is Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History and Haub Director in the Catholic Studies Program, Georgetown University, USA
