Book Review: The Relationship Between the Bible and Lives of its Readers

Wojciech Rybka

doi:10.1177/0014524616632962a

Book Review: The Relationship Between Scripture and Tradition: Edith M. Humphrey, Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says

The Expository Times ◽

10.1177/0014524614524142f ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 125 (10) ◽

pp. 510-510

Author(s):

Michael J. Kruger

Keyword(s):

The Bible ◽

The Relationship

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The End of the Word as We Know It

Postscripts The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds ◽

10.1558/post.v6i1-3.165 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (1-3) ◽

pp. 165-184

Author(s):

Timothy Beal

Keyword(s):

Cultural Meanings ◽

Cultural Icon ◽

The Bible ◽

Material Objectivity ◽

The Difference ◽

The Relationship

This essay attends to a distinction that requires closer examination and theorization in our discourse on iconic books and other scriptures: the difference between iconic object and cultural icon. How do we conceive of relations between the particular, ritualized iconicities of particular scriptures in particular religious contexts and the cultural iconicities of scriptures in general, such as “the Bible” or “the Quran,” whose visual and material objectivity is highly ambiguous? How if at all are the iconic cultural meanings of the ideas of such books related to the particular iconic textual objects more or less instantiate them? These questions are explored through particular focus on the relationship between the particular iconicities of particular print Bibles, as iconic objects, and the general iconicity of the cultural icon of the Bible.

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Languages from the world of the Bible, by Holger Gzella (ed.)

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/3685 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Christoph Stenschke

Keyword(s):

The Bible ◽

The World

Book review

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BOOK REVIEW: GENDER IN JEWISH ANTIQUITY: BIBLICAL TEXTS, RABBINIC INTERPRETATIONS, AND FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS. and Helena Zlotnick. DINAH'S DAUGHTERS: GENDER AND JUDAISM FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE TO LATE ANTIQUITY. and Tikva Frymer-Kensky. READING THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THEIR STORIES. and Judith R. Baskin. MIDRASHIC WOMEN: FORMATIONS OF THE FEMININE IN RABBINIC LITERATURE. and Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert. MENSTRUAL PURITY: RABBINIC AND CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONS OF BIBLICAL GENDER. and Cynthia M. Baker. REBUILDING THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: ARCHITECTURES OF GENDER IN JEWISH ANTIQUITY.

NWSA Journal ◽

10.2979/nws.2004.16.2.196 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 196-206

Author(s):

Esther Fuchs

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Rabbinic Literature ◽

The Bible ◽

The Feminine ◽

Biblical Texts ◽

New Interpretation

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BOOK REVIEW: Sue Zemka.VICTORIAN TESTAMENTS: THE BIBLE, CHRISTOLOGY, AND LITERARY AUTHORITY IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Victorian Studies ◽

10.2979/vic.1999.42.4.670 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 670-672

Author(s):

Robert H. Ellison

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Stanford University ◽

Literary Authority ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

The Bible ◽

British Culture

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Afterword

10.1093/oso/9780198812487.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria Brownlee

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Early Modern England ◽

Popular Entertainment ◽

Departure Point ◽

The Bible ◽

The Relationship

The recent upturn in biblically based films in Anglophone cinema is the departure point for this Afterword reflecting on the Bible’s impact on popular entertainment and literature in early modern England. Providing a survey of the book’s themes, and drawing together the central arguments, the discussion reminds that literary writers not only read and used the Bible in different ways to different ends, but also imbibed and scrutinized dominant interpretative principles and practices in their work. With this in mind, the Afterword outlines the need for further research into the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

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