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Looking for an Argument: On Visual Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation


Looking for an Argument: On Visual Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation
 Students of antiquity have long taken their idea of the ancient world from ancient literature. But literature is only part of the ancient world, and itself only preserved in fragments, reflects only fragments of the culture, for the most part, of the upper classes. Thus then the picture of Paul’s world was drawn almost exclusively with the aid of literary sources, and became a gloomy background, the better fitted for displaying the brilliant light of Christianity…. Because other voices are silent it has no doubt been supposed that they have never spoken.
Adolf Deissmann1
In spite of their quantity and globalized presence, for many educated people pictures have become synonymous with ignorance, illiteracy, and deceit. Why?
Barbara Maria Stafford2
Visualizing the Methodological Issues, Then and Now
Scholars have long acknowledged the need for broad sets of data through which to assess and interpret biblical literature more fully and complexly. Whether using “parallel” literatures from ancient cultures, archaeological finds and material artefacts from contemporaneous civilizations, or exemplary “receptions” of biblical texts in multiple media, scholars have, over a long duration, pressed the methodological need for engagement with non-literary materials. It is difficult to imagine, for example, a modern Bible textbook without images illustrating various aspects http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biblical Interpretation Brill

Looking for an Argument: On Visual Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation


Lopez, Davina C.
Biblical Interpretation , Volume 25 (3): 22 – Jun 21, 2017
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Abstract

Students of antiquity have long taken their idea of the ancient world from ancient literature. But literature is only part of the ancient world, and itself only preserved in fragments, reflects only fragments of the culture, for the most part, of the upper classes. Thus then the picture of Paul’s world was drawn almost exclusively with the aid of literary sources, and became a gloomy background, the better fitted for displaying the brilliant light of Christianity…. Because other voices are silent it has no doubt been supposed that they have never spoken.
Adolf Deissmann1
In spite of their quantity and globalized presence, for many educated people pictures have become synonymous with ignorance, illiteracy, and deceit. Why?
Barbara Maria Stafford2
Visualizing the Methodological Issues, Then and Now
Scholars have long acknowledged the need for broad sets of data through which to assess and interpret biblical literature more fully and complexly. Whether using “parallel” literatures from ancient cultures, archaeological finds and material artefacts from contemporaneous civilizations, or exemplary “receptions” of biblical texts in multiple media, scholars have, over a long duration, pressed the methodological need for engagement with non-literary materials. It is difficult to imagine, for example, a modern Bible textbook without images illustrating various aspects

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Published: Jun 21, 2017

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