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    Retellings: The Bible in Literature, Music, Art and Film

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    Retellings: The Bible in Literature, Music, Art and Film

    J. Cheryl Exum, "Retellings: The Bible in Literature, Music, Art and Film"
    Brill Academic Publishers | 2008 | ISBN: 900416572X | 200 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB

    Editorial Preface
    The Bible has played an inspirational role in the literature, music and art
    of Western culture for centuries, and the various treatments the Bible has
    received in literature, music and the visual arts have, in turn, influenced
    the way the Bible is read. From its earliest beginnings, film has entered
    the picture as another influential medium for bringing biblical stories
    and characters to life for millions of viewers, many of whom have little
    knowledge of the Bible itself.
    In recent years biblical scholars and students have become increasingly
    interested in studying retellings of biblical stories in the arts, not only
    for their relation to the biblical text but also for the ‘story’ they have to
    tell (or, if they are not strictly ‘retellings’, for the light they might shed
    on the biblical text). Analysing retellings based on biblical characters or
    stories is not a matter of looking at the text and then asking how the
    literary, musical, or visual representation ‘got it right’ or ‘got it wrong’. A
    retelling of a biblical event or story, as the contributions to this volume
    reveal, is more than a simple transposition of a text onto a page, a canvas,
    a stage or celluloid. The retelling is itself an interpretation of the text and
    deserves to be studied for its own particular insights into and its time-
    and culture-bound perspective on the text. These insights and perspectives
    often can lead us to see something in the text we might have missed, or
    can help us appreciate the richness or complexity of the text, or encourage
    us to interrogate the text and its time- and culture-bound perspective or
    agenda.
    The present collection of essays on this important topic is appearing
    concurrently in a special issue of the journal Biblical Interpretation. Since
    it was founded in 1993, Biblical Interpretation has played a key role in
    fostering the publication of articles in the newly developing area of the
    reception history of the Bible in the arts. In addition to articles in regular
    issues of the journal, two special issues of Biblical Interpretation have been
    devoted especially to this topic, Beyond the Biblical Horizon: e Bible and
    the Arts (1999) and e Bible in Film/the Bible and Film (2006). Now, with
    Retellings, Biblical Interpretation is publishing for the first time articles on
    the Bible in music, together with a diverse collection of essays dealing with
    the Bible and literature, art and film. Music is something of a newcomer
    to the study of the Bible and the arts, perhaps because it has been more
    difficult to make a musical score accessible to readers, and because, to deal
    with more than a libretto, a scholar must know not only about the Bible
    but also about music. Unlike art, where we can all see, for example, a
    painting before us and follow an argument about it, we cannot hear the
    music that is discussed in a scholarly article. But this is all changing, and
    analysis of the use of the Bible in music is being more and more represented
    in print as well as at scholarly meetings (the Society of Biblical Literature,
    for example, has sessions on the Bible and music at both its national and
    international meetings).
    The eight contributions to this volume illustrate a range of exciting
    approaches to retellings of the Bible in literature, music, art and film and
    reveal something of the scope of this fascinating and rapidly expanding
    area of inquiry.

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