There is a growing recognition of the importance of investigating the reception history (or 'afterlives') of biblical texts. How people have interpreted and been influenced by the Bible is often as interesting and historically important as what the text may have originally meant. Reception history is interdisciplinary by nature, examining material from a wide variety of contexts and media, and incorporating readings outside the academy, from both church and culture. This is a distinctive feature, broadening the horizons of material traditionally classed as 'biblical interpretation'. So artists, writers and composers are included as biblical interpreters alongside the academic and the religious believer.
The present volume aims to contribute to this broad field of interest by focusing on the theme of the reception history of the passion narratives. The contributors highlight the varying cultural contexts of differing biblical interpretations of the Passion narratives, ranging from 'Christian Cannibalism and Human(e) Sacrifice: The Passion and the Conversion of the Aztecs' (Prof. Lara, Yale University) to 'Emblem and Irony: Passion Narrative in Post-Reformation Hymnody' (Prof. Watson, Durham University) to The Passion in Early Christian Art (Prof. Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University). Significant hermeneutical questions are thereby raised about interpretation of the passion narratives.
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Mention -Book News, February 2009 "An enormously worthwhile volume" - The Glass Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08 Reviewed in International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Vol. 9, No. 1, Feb 2009, 57-72 -- David Brown "This volume is well organised and introduced, and each of the essays nicely describes a moment in the passion's ecclesial and artistic reception." -Richard Walsh, The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 6 Reviewed by John Court, 12 September 2008 * Church Times *
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Christine Joynes is Associate Director of the Centre for Reception History of the Bible at Oxford University, UK. She is currently writing the Blackwell Bible Commentary, Mark's Gospel Through the Centuries, and co-ordinating a project entitled Biblical Women and their Afterlives.
Introduction - Dr Christine Joynes (University of Oxford, UK)
'Effective History' and Art: A Hermeneutical Study with Examples from the Passion Narrative - Prof. Ulrich Luz (University of Bern, Switzerland)
He Who Hesitates is Human: Literary Portrayals of the Gesthemane 'Moment' - Prof. Peter Hawkins (Boston University, USA)
The Transforming Power of the Cross - Prof. Timothy Gorringe (University of Exeter, UK)
The Passion in Early Christian Art - Prof. Robin Jensen (Vanderbilt University, USA)
From Nativity to Resurrection: Musical and Exegetical Resonances in the Good Friday Chants Domine audiui and Qui habitat - Dr Emma Hornby (University of Durham, UK)
In Persona Mariae: Singing the Song of Songs as a Passion Commentary - Dr William Flynn (University of Leeds, UK)
Emblem and Irony: Passion Narrative in Post-Reformation Hymnody - Prof. J.R. Watson (University of Durham, UK)
Christian Cannibalism and Human(e) Sacrifice: The Passion and the Conversion of the Aztecs - Prof. Jaime Lara (Yale University, USA)
The Mass and the Stage: Sacrifice and Murder in Othello - Prof. Regina Schwartz (Northwestern University, USA)
Bad Friday - Sara Maitland (freelance author)
Afterword - Prof. Nancy Macky (Westminster College, Pennsylvania, USA)
