Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction, Stephen Prickett; INSPIRATION AND THEORY; 2. 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem ?' The Biblical Chain-Gang, Stephen Prickett; 3. Hebrew Aesthetics and Jewish Biblical Exegesis, Mordechai Z. Cohen; 4. Migne's Achievement and the Modern Transmission of Ancient Manuscripts, Dan Williams; 5. Augustine on Beauty: a Biblical Aesthetics, David Lyle Jeffrey; 6. Sublimity and Resistance to Form in the Early Modern Bible, Anthony Ossa-Richardson; 7. 'A Babel of Bibles': Aesthetics, Translation and Interpretation since 1885, Nicholas Bielby; m8. Lest the Story be Lost: Biblical Fiction, David Dickinson; 9. The Bible and Phenomenology, Kevin Hart; ART AND ARCHITECTURE; 10. The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art, Robin Margaret Jensen; 11. Images of Conflict: the art of Anti-Judaism in Fifth Century Rome, Geri Parlby; 12. A Shared Tradition: The Decorated Pages of Medieval Bibles and Qur'ans, Vivian B. Mann; 13. Speaking Pictures: Mediaeval Religious Art and its Viewers, Charles Moseley; 14. The Iconography of the Cross as the Tree of Life, Christopher Irvine; 15. Art and the Resurrection Narrative, Christopher Herbert; 16. Covenants and Connections: the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita, Chloe Reddaway; 17. Who Framed Bathsheba? Vivianne Westbrook; 18. The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel: Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome, Shirley Smith; 19. The Materiality and Iconography of the Coverdale Bible (1535), Mark Rankin and Guido Latre; 20. Moses in Eighteenth Century Art, Nigel Aston; 21. Blake: Text and Image, Christopher Rowland; 22. The Angel in the Detail: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Christopher Rogers; 23. Framing the Vision: Biblical Imagery in the Work of Van Gogh, Daphne Lawson; 24. Coventry Cathedral: Conception and Reality, Sarah Hosking; HYMNS; 25. Hymns of the Wesleys, J.R. Watson; 26. The Bible Interpreted by Hymns, Robin Gill; LITERATURE; 27. The Art of Unveiling: Biblical Apocalypse, Christopher Burdon; 28. The Divine Comedy as the Word of God, Patricia Erskine-Hill; 29. The Mediaeval Bible as Literature, Alastair Minnis & Andrew Kraebel; 30. Homer Writes Back: Rhetorical Art and Biblical Epic Justice in Paradise Lost, Book 1, Phillip Donnelly; 31. Heart-Deep: The Psalms and George Herbert, Christopher Hodgkins; 32. From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm; 33. The Mirror of the Law of Liberty: Reflecting the Hidden Christ in George Macdonald's Lilith, Bethany Bear; 34. Images of the Creator/Creation from Frankenstein to Nietzsche, Norbert Lennartz; 35. Eliot Among the Theologians, Jan Gorak; 36. Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama, James Alexander.

About the Author

Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English, at the University of Glasgow and honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has also taught at the Universities of Sussex, the Australian National University in Canberra, Duke University, and Baylor University, where he was Director of the Armstrong Browning Library. He has published one novel, nine monographs, seven edited volumes, and over ninety articles on Romanticism, Victorian Studies and literature and theology.

Reviews

A companion of great range and depth--Paul Ellingworth "METHODIST RECORDER"

The vital and continuing relationship between the Bible and the Arts is amply demonstrated in this collection of remarkably wide-ranging essays and text-specific illustrations. General readers will enjoy its accessibly-presented, fresh perspectives, while scholars will wish to keep this treasure-house of illuminating scholarship close at hand.-- "Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University"

The subject may be vast, but this collection is an invaluable contribution, which lends light on the mysterious, beautiful, and profound ways the arts and the Bible have informed each other and how together they help us understand the "human situation" more fully.--Michael Heath, Columbia sc "Religion and the Arts"