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.
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1.
Naked
or
Nurtured
5
Eve
and
the Virgin
e
depictions
of
women
in
Christian
art
played
significant
roles
in
the
socializa-
tion
of
women,
especially
for
their
roles
in
both
ecclesiastical
and
everyday
life.
Typically,
these
presentations
were
divided
into
the
motifs
of
the
ideal
and
the
imperfect.
e
Pauline
teachings
of
the
Christ
as
the
‘New
Adam’
(1
Cor
15:21–22,
45–49
DR
9
)
led
to
the
association
of
a
‘first
Eve’
and
Mary
as
the
‘New
Eve’
by
sev-
eral
church
fathers.
10
ey
contrasted
the
active
disobedience
of
the
‘first
Eve’
with
the
passive
obedience
of
the
‘second Eve’.
Acceptable
modes
of
appearance,
attitude
and
behaviour
were
prescribed
just
as
unacceptable
modes
were
proscribed
for
young
Christian
women
through
visual
Figure
1.1
Amesbury
Psalter,
e
Virgin
Suckling
the
Child;
with
a
Kneeling
Nun,
c. 1250–55.
MS
6
f.4.
Illumination
on
parchment,
236
x
162 mm.
Salisbury,
Oxford,
All
Souls
College,
©
e
British
Library.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abstracts
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Naked or Nurtured: The Breast of Eve, The Breast of Mary
- 2. Images of the First Woman: Eve in Islamic Fāl-Nāma Paintings
- 3. Beauty and its Beholders: Envisioning Sarah and Esther
- 4. Re-Visioning Women in Mark’s Gospel Through Art
- 5. How Salomé Fell for the Baptist, or John the Baptist as L’homme Fatal : Artistic Interpretations of a Biblical Narrative
- 6. Framing a Heroine: Judith’s Counterparts in Biblical Villains
- 7. Biblical Elegy and Quattrocento Marian Encomium: Marcantonio Sabellico’s Carmina De Beata Virgine Maria
- 8. Theatrical Reliquaries: Afterlives of St Mary Magdalene in Early Seventeenth-Century Florence
- 9. Guercino’s Christ and the Woman of Samaria in the Kimbell art Museum: The Evolution of Biblical Narrative and Visual Meaning
- 10. Picturing the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Revelation 12): Images of Apocalyptic Conflict, Piety and Strength
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