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Book SynopsisExploring 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.
Trade 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
Table of ContentsThe Bible in Film Adele Reinhartz - History and Pseudo-History in the Jesus Film Genre Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner - What is “Real”? Re-Viewing and Un-Reeling The Passion of the Christ Richard Walsh - The Gospel according to Judas: Myth and Parable Reinhold Zwick - Mit ‘Esther’ für Versöhnung streiten: Zu Amos Gitais filmischer Aktualisierung der biblischen Erzählung Ulrike Vollmer - Auf Leinwand gebannt: Judith im (Miss-)Verständnis von Malerei und Film The Bible and Film Tod Linafelt - The Wizard of Uz: Job, Dorothy, and the Limits of the Sublime Fiona C. Black - A Miserable Feast: Dishing up the Biblical Corpse in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Erin Runions - Inherited Crypts of the Wife/Mother: Ang Lee’s Hulk Meets Zechariah 5:5–11 in Contemporary Apocalyptic Discourse George Aichele - The Possibility of Error: Minority Report and the Gospel of Mark Tina Pippin - Warrior Women of the Apocalypse: The Role of the Female in Some Recent Disaster Films Ela Nutu - Angels in America and Semiotic Cocktails of Sex, Bible and Politics
