Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles

What Is in the Picture?
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23074-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Semeia Studies

Children’s Bibles are often the first encounter people have with the Bible, shaping their perceptions of its stories and characters at an early age. The material under discussion in this book not only includes traditional children’s Bibles but also more recent phenomena such as manga Bibles and animated films for children. The book highlights the complex and even tense relationship between text and image in these Bibles, which is discussed from different angles in the essays. Their shared focus is on the representation of “others”—foreigners, enemies, women, even children themselves—in predominantly Hebrew Bible stories. The contributors are Tim Beal, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Melody Briggs, Rubén R. Dupertuis, Emma England, J. Cheryl Exum, Danna Nolan Fewell, David M. Gunn, Laurel Koepf, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Jeremy Punt, Hugh S. Pyper, Cynthia M. Rogers, Mark Roncace, Susanne Scholz, Jaqueline S. du Toit, and Caroline Vander Stichele.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stichele, Caroline Vander

Pyper, Hugh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper
Part 1: Identifying the Strange Other
Inside Out: The Othered Child in the Bible for Children
Laurel Koepf
“All God’s Children”: Authority Figures, Places of Learning, and Society as the Other in Creationist Children’s Bibles
Jaqueline S. du Toit
Looking into the Lions’ Den: Otherness, Ideology, and Illustration in Children’s Versions of Daniel 6
Hugh S. Pyper
The Other in South African Children’s Bibles: Politics and (Biblical) Systems of Othering
Jeremy Punt
Veggies, Women, and Other Strangers in Children’s Bible DVDs: Toward the Creation of Feminist Bible Films
Susanne Scholz
Part 2: Learning How to Deal with the Other
No Greater Love: Jonathan and His Friendship with David in Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Children’s Literature
Cynthia M. Rogers and Danna Nolan Fewell
The Word Became Visual Text: The Boy Jesus in Children’s Bibles
Melody Briggs
Depiction of the Devil and the Education of Chinese Children: The Bible in the Taiping Trimetrical Classic
Archie Chi Chung Lee
Conflating Creation, Combining Christmas, and Ostracizing the Other
Mark Roncace
Part 3: Destroying the Other
“The Water’s Round My Shoulders, and I’m—GLUG! GLUG! GLUG!”: God’s Destruction of Humanity in the Flood Story for Children
Emma England
Samson’s Suicide and the Death of Three Thousand Others in Children’s Bible Stories through Two Centuries
David M. Gunn
Translating the Bible into Pictures
Rubén R. Dupertuis
Samson’s Hair and Delilah’s Despair: Reanimating Judges 16 for Children
Caroline Vander Stichele
Responses
Children’s Bibles Hot and Cold
Timothy Beal
The Otherness of Children’s Bibles in Historical Perspective
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
What Does a Child Want? Reflections on Children’s Bible Stories
J. Cheryl Exum
Contributors
Index of Biblical Citations
Index of Modern Authors and Artists.357

Über Autor(innen)

Stichele, Caroline Vander
Caroline Vander Stichele is Universitair Docent (Lecturer) in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. She is the co-author of Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse: Thinking beyond Thecla (T&T Clark) and co-editor of Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (Brill).

Pyper, Hugh
Hugh S. Pyper is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text (Sheffield Phoenix) and David as Reader: 2 Samuel 12:1–15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood (Brill).

Caroline Vander Stichele is Universitair Docent (Lecturer) in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. She is the co-author of Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse: Thinking beyond Thecla (T&T Clark) and co-editor of Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (Brill).

Hugh S. Pyper is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text (Sheffield Phoenix) and David as Reader: 2 Samuel 12:1–15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood (Brill).