Screening Scripture

Screening Scripture
Author: George Aichele
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781563383540

An intertextual examination of popular films and scripture.

Testing Scripture

Testing Scripture
Author: John Polkinghorne
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441237402

Scientist and theologian John Polkinghorne is one of the world's leading authorities on issues of science and faith. In this compelling work, he provides a fresh, honest look at key themes of the Bible from an analytical and rational perspective, offering a series of insights that have helped him in his own engagement with the Bible. Polkinghorne tackles the questions a modern Western thinker might bring to the Bible, including issues of Scripture and authority, contradiction and ambiguity, and the creation and fall. He also addresses theological challenges of the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the writings of Paul. "I have written this little book in the hope that it will be helpful to those who are seeking a careful and thoughtful engagement with the Bible in their quest for a truthful understanding of the ways of God and the nature of spiritual reality," writes Polkinghorne. His nuanced approach will be appreciated by any reader with an open and inquiring mind who is interested in the intersection between science and Scripture.

Scripture on the Silver Screen

Scripture on the Silver Screen
Author: Adele Reinhartz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664223595

Om amerikanske film som tolkes ud fra tekster i Bibelen

Testing Scripture

Testing Scripture
Author: John Polkinghorne
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587433133

One of the world's leading authorities on issues of science and faith provides a fresh, honest, and analytical look at key themes of the Bible.

The Bible in Motion

The Bible in Motion
Author: Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1001
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501500163

This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.

The Bible in Theory

The Bible in Theory
Author: Stephen D. Moore
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1589835069

The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and "theory." Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as the quest for the historical Jesus, the essays simultaneously traverse postmodernism, deconstruction, New Historicism, autobiographical criticism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, masculinity studies, queer theory, and "posttheory." Individual essay introductions and periodic annotated bibliographies make the volume an advanced introduction to biblical literary criticism. --From publisher's description.

Close Encounters between Bible and Film

Close Encounters between Bible and Film
Author: Laura Copier
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884141969

Explore new routes into the burgeoning field of biblical literature and film theory The present collection of essays is a sequel to the groundbreaking Semeia 74 issue, published in 1996, entitled Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz. These new essays showcase the divergent approaches from film studies and cultural studies that can be used in the visual analysis of biblical and religious themes, narratives, and characters in cinema. It is the first volume that specifically addresses issues of methodology, theory, and analysis in the study between bible and film. As such, this collection is of interest to scholars in film studies and theology/religion/biblical studies, who are invested in doing interdisciplinary research in the expanding field of religion and film. Features Specific focus on methods of film analysis, rather than the more common focus on thematic analysis in the study of religion, Bible, and film. Visual analysis in the encounter between Bible and film Fourteen essays and an introduction by top scholars in the field

The New Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 4, From 1750 to the Present

The New Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 4, From 1750 to the Present
Author: John Riches
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1316194116

This volume examines the Bible's role in the modern world - beginning with a treatment of its production and distribution that discusses publishers, printers, text critics, and translators and continuing with a presentation of new methods of studying the text that have emerged, including historical, literary, social-scientific, feminist, postcolonial, liberal, and fundamentalist readings. There is a full discussion of the changes in understandings of and approaches to the Bible in various faith communities. The dissemination of the Bible throughout the globe has also produced a host of new interpretations, and this volume provides a comprehensive geographical survey of its reception. In the final chapters, the authors offer a thematic overview of the Bible in relation to literature, art, film, science, and other disciplines. They demonstrate that, in spite of challenges to the Bible's authority in western Europe, it remains highly relevant and influential, not least in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

100 Bible Films

100 Bible Films
Author: Matthew Page
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1839023546

From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Höritz Passion Play was filmed in the Czech Republic back in 1897. Ever since, these stories have inspired musicals, comedies, sci-fi, surrealist visions and the avant-garde not to mention spawning their own genre, the biblical epic. Filmmakers across six continents and from all kinds of religious perspectives (or none at all), have adapted the greatest stories ever told, delighting some and infuriating others. 100 Bible Films is the indispensable guide to this wide and varied output, providing an authoritative but accessible history of biblical adaptations through one hundred of the most interesting and significant biblical films. Richly illustrated with film stills, this book depicts how such films have undertaken a complex negotiation between art, commerce, entertainment and religion. Matthew Page traces the screen history of the biblical stories from the very earliest silent passion plays, via the golden ages of the biblical epic, through to more innovative and controversial later films as well as covering significant TV adaptations. He discusses films made not only by some of our greatest filmmakers, artists such as Martin Scorsese, Jean Luc Godard, Alice Guy, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lotte Reiniger, Carl Dreyer and Luis Buñuel, but also those looking to explore their faith or share it with lovers of cinema the world over.