The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania

Anyone interested in or involved in promoting Scripture engagement will find plenty of food for thought in The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania, in the series, Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the Bible (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), edited by Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka'uta, and Andrew Mein. While the ebook costs $78 USD, you can read the introduction and the first several pages of the first essay for free. The introduction provides an overview of the volume (as well as an extremely brief introduction to the subject) and the first 9 pages of the first contributed essay will give you a taste of what is to come:

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Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka?uta Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 9, 2017 - Religion - 288 pages 0 Reviews

This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean perspectives, contributors explore the innovative ways that both creators and beholders of Oceanic arts draw upon their contexts and cultures in order to open up creative engagements with the stories, themes and theologies of the biblical traditions.

Various motifs weave their way throughout the volume, including antipodean landscapes and ecology, (post)colonialism, philosophy, Oceanic spiritualities and the often contested engagements between western and indigenous cultures. Within this weaving process, each essay invites readers to contemplate these various forms of visual culture through Oceanic eyes, and to appreciate the fresh insights that this process can bring to reading and interpreting the biblical traditions. The result is a rich and interdisciplinary array of conversations that will capture the attention of readers within the fields of biblical reception studies, cultural studies, theology and art history. More

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Caroline Blyth is a lecturer of Religious Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Nasili Vaka'uta is the Principal of Trinity Theological College, Auckland, and Ranston Lecturer in Biblical Studies, New Zealand. Bibliographic information

Title The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Editors Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka?uta Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 ISBN 0567673308, 9780567673305 Length 288 pages Subjects ReligionBiblical StudiesOld Testament

Art / Subjects & Themes / Religious Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament

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