The Bible in Film — The Bible and Film

J. Cheryl Exum is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is the Executive Editor of Biblical Interpretation and a Director of Sheffield Phoenix Press. The author of numerous scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible, her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative: Arrows of the Almighty, Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives, Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women, Was sagt das Richterbuch den Frauen?, and, most recently, The Song of Songs: A Commentary. She is currently writing a book entitled Cultural Industry: The Bible and the Arts.

'... the reader is richly rewarded by reading and re-reading these essays. [..] Hopefully these essays will encourage readers to initiate their own conversations between bibles and film.'
Michael Carden, The Bible and Critical Theory, 2007.

The Bible in Film
Adele Reinhartz - History and Pseudo-History in the Jesus Film Genre
Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner - What is “Real”? Re-Viewing and Un-Reeling The Passion of the Christ
Richard Walsh - The Gospel according to Judas: Myth and Parable
Reinhold Zwick - Mit ‘Esther’ für Versöhnung streiten: Zu Amos Gitais filmischer Aktualisierung der biblischen Erzählung
Ulrike Vollmer - Auf Leinwand gebannt: Judith im (Miss-)Verständnis von Malerei und Film

The Bible and Film
Tod Linafelt - The Wizard of Uz: Job, Dorothy, and the Limits of the Sublime
Fiona C. Black - A Miserable Feast: Dishing up the Biblical Corpse in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Erin Runions - Inherited Crypts of the Wife/Mother: Ang Lee’s Hulk Meets Zechariah 5:5–11 in Contemporary Apocalyptic Discourse
George Aichele - The Possibility of Error: Minority Report and the Gospel of Mark
Tina Pippin - Warrior Women of the Apocalypse: The Role of the Female in Some Recent Disaster Films
Ela Nutu - Angels in America and Semiotic Cocktails of Sex, Bible and Politics