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Title:

Retellings : the Bible in literature, music, art and film / edited by J. Cheryl Exum.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Bible--Influence.
Bible--History of Biblical events--Art.
Bible--In literature.
Bible in music.
Bible--In motion pictures.

Other Authors:

Exum, J. Cheryl. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85240674

Other Titles:

Biblical interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Big sleep: strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir / Eric S. Christianson. Jephthah's daughter as object of desire or feminist icon / Mikael Sjöberg -- Latecomers: four novelists rewrite the Bible / Anthony Swindell -- Eroticism, death, and redemption: the operatic construct of the biblical femme fatale / Peter McGrail -- Re-visioning a biblical story through libretto and music: Debora e Jaele by Ildebrando Pizzetti / Helen Leneman -- Oratorio as exegesis: the use of the book of Isaiah in Handel's Messiah / Andrew Davies -- 'The bosom of Abraham' (Luke 16:22): father Abraham in the visual imagination / Martin O'Kane -- Big sleep: strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir / Eric S. Christianson.

ISBN:

900416572X
9789004165724

OCLC:

(OCoLC)180851952

LCCN:

2007043462

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)