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Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics.

By Jean-Francois Racine , Richard J. Bautch

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2013
ISBN
1589839099, 9781589839090
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4034487 bytes)
Series
SBL Semeia Studies 73
Pages
x+126\138
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-09-11 12:57:09
Criticism Interpretation Exegesis Hermeneutics New

Description

These seven essays offer fresh perspectives on beauty s role in revelation. Each essay features a hermeneutical approach informed by the contemporary study of aesthetics. Covering a series of texts in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, from Adam and Eve in the garden to Jesus on trial in the Fourth Gospel, the authors engage beauty from three overarching perspectives: modern philosophy, contextual criticism, and the postcritical return to beauty s primary qualities. The three perspectives are not harmonized but rather explored concurrently to create a volume with intriguing methodological tensions. As this collection highlights beauty in the narratives of scripture, it opens readers to a largely unexplored dimension of the Bible. The contributors are Richard J. Bautch, Jo-Ann A. Brant, Mark Brummitt, David Penchansky, Antonio Portalatín, Jean-François Racine, and Peter Spitaler.

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