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Borders, boundaries and the Bible / edited by Martin O'Kane.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 313Publication details: London : Sheffield Academic Press, c2002.Description: xii, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1841271489
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR115.A8 O336 2002
Contents:
Removing an ancient landmark : reading the Bible as cultural production / Robert P. Carroll -- The flight into Egypt : icon of refuge for the h(a)unted / Martin O'Kane -- The compassionate God of Leviticus and his animal creation / Mary Douglas -- The sacrifice of Isaac (the Akedah) in Christian and Jewish tradition : artistic representatons / Edward Kessler -- "The Son of God goes forth to war" : Biblical imagery in Rudyard Kipling's "The man who would be king" / Larry J. Kreitzer -- The composer of sacred music as an interpreter of the Bible / Wendy J. Porter -- Open letter from a blind disciple to a sighted Saviour / John M. Hull -- The idea of character in the Bible : Joseph the dreamer / Stephen Prickett -- Joseph the patriarch : representations of Joseph in early post-Biblical literature / Susan Docherty -- Hans Holbein's The ambassadors : Biblical reflections on a Renaissance masterpiece / Larry J. Kreitzer -- On the frontier : Judith and Esther in the myth of America / Margarita Stocker -- Lethal woman 2 : reflections on Delilah and her incarnation as Liz Hurley / J. Cheryl Exum -- Heroes of the Promised Land : translating American frontier myths into Biblical epics / Joy Sisley -- Jesus, Mary and Joseph! : (holy) family values in film / Gaye Ortiz -- A voice crying in the wilderness : the Biblical hero in opera with specific reference to John the Baptist / Anthony Axe.
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Essays based on the proceedings of two conferences held at Newman College, Birmingham, in 1999 and 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-347) and index.

Removing an ancient landmark : reading the Bible as cultural production / Robert P. Carroll -- The flight into Egypt : icon of refuge for the h(a)unted / Martin O'Kane -- The compassionate God of Leviticus and his animal creation / Mary Douglas -- The sacrifice of Isaac (the Akedah) in Christian and Jewish tradition : artistic representatons / Edward Kessler -- "The Son of God goes forth to war" : Biblical imagery in Rudyard Kipling's "The man who would be king" / Larry J. Kreitzer -- The composer of sacred music as an interpreter of the Bible / Wendy J. Porter -- Open letter from a blind disciple to a sighted Saviour / John M. Hull -- The idea of character in the Bible : Joseph the dreamer / Stephen Prickett -- Joseph the patriarch : representations of Joseph in early post-Biblical literature / Susan Docherty -- Hans Holbein's The ambassadors : Biblical reflections on a Renaissance masterpiece / Larry J. Kreitzer -- On the frontier : Judith and Esther in the myth of America / Margarita Stocker -- Lethal woman 2 : reflections on Delilah and her incarnation as Liz Hurley / J. Cheryl Exum -- Heroes of the Promised Land : translating American frontier myths into Biblical epics / Joy Sisley -- Jesus, Mary and Joseph! : (holy) family values in film / Gaye Ortiz -- A voice crying in the wilderness : the Biblical hero in opera with specific reference to John the Baptist / Anthony Axe.

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