Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
4. FIGURES xi
5. PLATES xv
6. CONTRIBUTORS xxi
7. 1 INTRODUCTION 1
8. I: Inspiration and Theory
9. 2 ‘WHAT HAS ATHENS TO DO WITH JERUSALEM?’ THE BIBLICAL CHAIN-GANG 10
10. 3 HEBREW AESTHETICS AND JEWISH BIBLICAL EXEGESIS 24
11. 4 MIGNE’S ACHIEVEMENT AND THE MODERN TRANSMISSION OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS 42
12. 5 AUGUSTINE ON BEAUTY: A BIBLICAL AESTHETICS 56
13. 6 SUBLIMITY AS RESISTANCE TO FORM IN THE EARLY MODERN BIBLE 69
14. 7 ‘A BABEL OF BIBLES’: AESTHETICS, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SINCE 1885 88
15. 8 LEST THE STORY BE LOST: BIBLICAL FICTION 104
16. 9 THE BIBLE AND PHENOMENOLOGY 114
17. II: Art and Architecture
18. 10 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ART 130
19. 11 IMAGES OF CONFLICT: THE ART OF ANTI-JUDAISM IN FIFTH-CENTURY ROME 149
20. 12 A SHARED TRADITION: THE DECORATED PAGES OF MEDIEVAL BIBLES AND QUR’ANS 161
21. 13 SPEAKING PICTURES: MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS ART AND ITS VIEWERS 175
22. 14 THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE CROSS AS THE GREEN TREE 195
23. 15 ART AND THE RESURRECTION NARRATIVES 208
24. 16 COVENANTS AND CONNECTIONS: THE SASSETTI CHAPEL, SANTA TRINITA: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST FRANCIS, GHIRLANDAIO, 1479–85 219
25. 17 WHO FRAMED BATHSHEBA? 236
26. 18 THE FRESCO DECORATION IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL: BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND THE CHURCH OF ROME 254
27. 19 THE MATERIALITY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF THE COVERDALE BIBLE (1535) TITLE PAGE IN CONTEXT 272
28. 20 MOSES AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS ART 292
29. 21 BLAKE: TEXT AND IMAGE 307
30. 22 ‘FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM’: PORTRAYING THE BIBLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY STAINED GLASS 327
31. 23 VAN GOGH: FRAMING A BIBLICAL VISION 346
32. 24 COVENTRY CATHEDRAL: CONCEPT, REASONS AND REALITY 361
33. III: Literature
34. 25 SACRED POETRY: WATTS AND WESLEY 382
35. 26 THE BIBLE INTERPRETED BY HYMNS 401
36. 27 THE ART OF UNVEILING: BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE 411
37. 28 THE DIVINE COMEDY AS THE WORD OF GOD 428
38. 29 THE MEDIEVAL BIBLE AS LITERATURE 440
39. 30 HOMER WRITES BACK: RHETORICAL ART AND BIBLICAL EPIC JUSTICE IN PARADISE LOST 459
40. 31 BIBLICAL AND SEVENTEENTHCENTURY POETRY: THE CASE OF THE PSALMS AND GEORGE HERBERT 477
41. 32 FROM VIRTUE TO GOODNESS: BIBLICAL VALUES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE 493
42. 33 THE MIRROR OF THE LAW OF LIBERTY: REFLECTING THE HIDDEN CHRIST IN GEORGE MACDONALD’S LILITH 507
43. 34 FIGURATIVE LITERALISM: THE IMAGE OF THE CREATOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE 521
44. 35 FROM SATIRE TO SANCTITY: THE PROPHETIC BOOKS IN T. S. ELIOT’S POETRY 534
45. 36 IMITATIO PILATI ET CHRISTI IN MODERN HISTORICAL DRAMA 550
46. INDEX 564