Image, text, exegesis
Subtitle: iconographic interpretation and the Hebrew Bible
By: edited by Izaak J. de Hulster and Joel M. LeMon
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 588; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 588.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780567168139; 9780567669568; 9780567588289
Subjects: Bible; Idols and images; Christian art and symbolism; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Bibel; General; Ikonographie; RELIGION; Biblical Studies
Description: "Images from the ancient Near East are an important though generally underutilized source of data for interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the cultural context from which it emerged. The essays in this volume highlight the ways that ancient Near Eastern iconography can inform exegesis. This aim is accomplished through case studies in iconographic exegesis that exhibit sound methodologies for relating images and texts. Since the 1970s, biblical scholars have been turning increasingly to iconography as a source for understanding the religion, history and literature of the ancient Near East. The essays in this volume tackle two thorny issues: 1) how images reflect the cultures that produce them and 2) the nature of the relationship between images and texts, both within discrete cultures and among different cultures. Until now, there have been relatively few methodologically self-conscious treatments of ancient iconography and its relationship to the biblical text. So this volume addresses a clear need for demonstrating transparent and consistent methods for iconographic work among biblical scholars"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The interpretive nexus of image and text  -- Izaak J. de Hulster, -- Joel M. LeMon; title: Acculturating gender roles : goddess images as conveyors of culture in ancient Israel  -- Elizabeth Bloch-Smith; title: Mixed creatures and the Assyrian influence on the west Semitic glyptic repertoire  -- Rüdiger Schmitt; title: The function and meaning of myʼmn on Hebrew seals in light of accompanying iconography  -- Meir Lubetski; title: The iconography of ideal feminine beauty represented in the Hebrew Bible and Iron Age Levantine ivory sculpture  -- Amy Rebecca Gansell; title: Finding Asherah : the goddesses in text and image  -- Jackie Wyse-Rhodes; title: The iconography of fear : yirʼat Yhwh in artistic perspective  -- Brent A. Strawn; title: Children I have raised and brought up (Isaiah 1:2) : female metaphors for God in Isaiah and the iconography of the Syro-Palestinian goddess Asherah  -- Martin Klingbeil; title: Images of justification  -- Thomas Staubli; title: The ivory beds and houses of Samaria in Amos  -- Meindert Dijkstra; title: Lions and leopards and bears, o my : re-reading Isaiah 11:6-9 in light of comparative iconographic and literary evidence  -- Michael J. Chan, -- Maria Metzler; title: A god of the mountains? : an iconographic perspective on the Aramean argument in 1 Kings 20:23  -- Izaak J. de Hulster; title: The Egyptian deity Menkeret and Psalm 89 as a royal funeral -- Hans Ulrich Steymans.