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Paul's Visual Piety : The Metamorphosis of the Beholder

ISBN: 9780199664146 | 0199664145
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/15/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book is at the interface between Visual Studies and Biblical Studies, and is the only monograph to date on St Paul's visual piety. It argues that the history of biblical scholarship is marked by a tendency to downplay this-worldly visuality in Christian culture, and that the exegesis of Paul is both a partial cause and a symptom of this 'disciplinary blind-spot'. By comparing Paul's presentation of the themes of 'metamorphosis' and 'beholding' in Romans and2 Corinthians with visual practices in neighbouring Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures,... MORE

I
Introduction: Formative Visuality
1. A Disciplinary Blind-Spot and its Origins
2. Various Visuals: Visual Culture, Visual Practice, Visual Piety
II
Introduction: Hellenistic, Jewish or Both?: Hellenistic, Jewish or Both?
3. Greco-Roman Visual Practices:Greco-Roman Visual Practices
4. Jewish Visual Practices: Jewish Visual Practices
III
Introduction: Luther s Faith and Paul s Sight: Romans 1:17 and 2 Corinthians 3:18
5. The Epistle to the Romans
6. Sens... MORE

J. M. F. Heath is Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Durham.


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