Art as Biblical Commentary

J. Cheryl Exum is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• Preface List of Figures Part I: Visual Criticism 1. Visual Criticism: Biblical Art as Biblical Commentary 2. The Blinded Samson and Scene from the Song of Songs: Paintings that Changed My MindPart II: Hagar3. The Abjection of Hagar4. The Rape of Hagar 5. The Theophanies to Hagar Part III: From Eve to Mary 6. Erotic Look and Voyeuristic Gaze: Looking at the Body in the Bible and Art7. Shared Glory: Salomon de Bray’s Jael, Deborah and Barak 8. Notorious Biblical Women in Manchester: Spencer Stanhope’s Eve and Frederick Pickersgill’s Delilah 9. Ecce Mulier: The Levite’s Wife, the Mother of Jesus, and the Sacrificial Female BodyBibliographyIndex of ReferencesIndex of Authors

Whether you already have a great knowledge of the Bible and/or art history, or neither of these subjects, you could not fail to be instantly drawn into the brilliance of Exum’s work such is the skill of her writing in presenting absorbing, challenging arguments about what is actually happening in the relationship in and between a biblical text and the greater and lesser known “masterpieces” of Western-European art that have attempted to interpret and depict these narratives over the past four or five centuries.