Beauty and the Bible : toward a hermeneutics of biblical aesthetics / edited by Richard J. Bautch and Jean-François Racine. - 1 online resource (x, 124 pages) : illustrations. - Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies ; number 73 . - Semeia studies ; no. 73. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The potential of the category of sublime for reading the episodes of the stilling of the storm (Luke 8:22-25) and of the transfiguration (Luke 9:28-36) / The sublime art of prophetic seeing : aesthetics and the word in the Book of Jeremiah / Perceiving beauty in Mark 5:21-43 / Beauty, power, and attraction : aesthetics and the Hebrew Bible / Yachin and Boaz in Jerusalem and Rome / Beauty, sorrow, and glory in the Gospel of John / Beauty and the Bible : synthesis and looking forward / Jean-François Racine -- Mark Brummitt -- Antonio Portalatín -- David Penchansky -- Richard J. Bautch -- Jo-Ann A. Brant -- Peter Spitaler.

9781589839083 (electronic bk.) 1589839080 (electronic bk.)


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Aesthetics in the Bible.
BIBLES / General
RELIGION / Biblical Reference / General
RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Handbooks


Electronic books.

BS680.A33 / B43 2013eb

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