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Biblical Reception, 4
A New Hollywood Moses: On the Spectacle and Reception of Exodus: Gods and Kings
Biblical Reception, 4
A New Hollywood Moses: On the Spectacle and Reception of Exodus: Gods and Kings
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Biblical Reception is rapidly becoming the go-to annual publication for all matters related to the reception of the bible. The annual addresses all kinds of use of the bible in art, music, literature, film and popular culture, as well as in the history of interpretation.
For this fourth edition of the annual, guest editor David Tollerton has commissioned pieces specifically on the use of the bible in one film: Exodus: Gods and Kings and these chapters consider how the film uses the bible, and how the bible functions within the film.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. 'Hmmm … But Loved the Plagues': On Engaging with Ridley Scott's Epic and its Audiences - David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK.
2. Depicting the Divine: The Ambiguity of Exodus 3 in Exodus: Gods and Kings
Matthew A. Collins – University of Chester, UK.
3. Exodus: Male Gods and Kings - J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield, UK.
4. Interpreting the Entrails: Religion and Violence in Exodus: Gods and Kings
Jon Morgan – University of Chester, UK.
5. 'See this Great Sight': Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings and the Evolution of Biblical Spectacle in the Cinema -- David Shepherd, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
6. Once Upon an Apocalypse: Exodus, Disaster, and a Long, Long Time Ago?
Michelle Fletcher – University of Kent, UK.
7. Picturing the Plagues and Parting the Waves: The Biblical Effect in Exodus: Gods and Kings -- Samuel Tongue, University of Glasgow, UK.
8. The Birth of a Nation: Civil Religion and Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings
Catherine Wheatley – King's College London, UK.
9. Exodus: Gods and Kings and the Secular-Religious Transgression of Sacred Boundaries -- David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK.
Product details
Published | 01 Dec 2016 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9780567672339 |
Imprint | T&T Clark |
Illustrations | 5 b/w illustrations |
Series | Biblical Reception |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The return of the 'Bible epic' to our screens … coincides with recent scholarly interest in the Bible in Film … and this absorbing volume by a group of UK- and Ireland-based scholars addresses some of the issues raised by the phenomenon.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
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A very readable and even collection of essays that well-demonstrate the present quality of conversation in the bible and film, with suggestions of where to further that conversation in a profitable dialog with other fields in the humanities.
Reading Religion

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