Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts

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.

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of Contributors1. Introduction, Stephen PrickettINSPIRATION AND THEORY2. ‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem ?’ The Biblical Chain-Gang, Stephen Prickett3. Hebrew Aesthetics and Jewish Biblical Exegesis, Mordechai Z. Cohen4. Migne’s Achievement and the Modern Transmission of Ancient Manuscripts, Dan Williams5. Augustine on Beauty: a Biblical Aesthetics, David Lyle Jeffrey6. Sublimity and Resistance to Form in the Early Modern Bible, Anthony Ossa-Richardson7. ‘A Babel of Bibles’: Aesthetics, Translation and Interpretation since 1885, Nicholas Bielby8. Lest the Story be Lost: Biblical Fiction, David Dickinson9. The Bible and Phenomenology, Kevin HartART AND ARCHITECTURE10. The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art, Robin Margaret Jensen11. Images of Conflict: the art of Anti-Judaism in Fifth Century Rome, Geri Parlby12. A Shared Tradition: The Decorated Pages of Medieval Bibles and Qur’ans, Vivian B. Mann13. Speaking Pictures: Mediaeval Religious Art and its Viewers, Charles Moseley14. The Iconography of the Cross as the Tree of Life, Christopher Irvine15. Art and the Resurrection Narrative, Christopher Herbert16. Covenants and Connections: the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita, Chloë Reddaway17. Who Framed Bathsheba? Vivienne Westbrook18. The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel: Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome, Shirley Smith19. The Materiality and Iconography of the Coverdale Bible (1535), Mark Rankin and Guido Latré20. Moses in Eighteenth Century Art, Nigel Aston21. Blake: Text and Image, Christopher Rowland22. The Angel in the Detail: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Christopher Rogers23. Framing the Vision: Biblical Imagery in the Work of Van Gogh, Daphne Lawson24. Coventry Cathedral: Conception and Reality, Sarah HoskingHYMNS25. Hymns of the Wesleys, J.R. Watson26. The Bible Interpreted by Hymns, Robin GillLITERATURE27. The Art of Unveiling: Biblical Apocalypse, Christopher Burdon28. The Divine Comedy as the Word of God, Patricia Erskine-Hill29. The Mediaeval Bible as Literature, Alastair Minnis & Andrew Kraebel30. Homer Writes Back: Rhetorical Art and Biblical Epic Justice in Paradise Lost, Book 1, Phillip Donnelly31. Heart-Deep: The Psalms and George Herbert, Christopher Hodgkins32. From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm33. The Mirror of the Law of Liberty: Reflecting the Hidden Christ in George Macdonald’s Lilith, Bethany Bear34. Images of the Creator/Creation from Frankenstein to Nietzsche, Norbert Lennartz35. Eliot Among the Theologians, Jan Gorak36. Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama, James Alexander