By J. Cheryl Exum
Plotted, Shot, and Painted stakes out new territory for feminist biblical feedback. It considers what occurs to biblical girls in pop culture, in artwork and in movie, and it foregrounds questions on how gender pursuits have an effect on interpretation and in regards to the roles and obligations of commentators and readers. This moment revised version includes an extra bankruptcy, ’Lot and his Daughters’, and an multiplied bankruptcy on Delilah. Exum’s mastery of biblical scholarship, movie feedback, feminist concept, and an unlimited literary and creative repertoire is overwhelming ... a superb paintings of study and demanding pondering ... The e-book introduces the reader to a very wealthy number of severe studies, which some distance transcends the constraints of traditional biblical scholarship. Francis Landy, Prooftexts ... a pleasure to read-still discovered, but in addition witty and passionate. here's a new type of biblical feedback. we're conversing the following of items that truly topic, issues that experience prompted damage to girls and in addition to males, and issues that may be made larger ... it really is approximately cinema, paintings, literature, renowned music, and pornography. In different phrases, it areas the Bible precisely the place it's going to be, on the middle of our cultural event from ’high’ paintings to ’low’ artwork ... David Jasper, Biblical Interpretation ... crucial for all considering literary, feminist, and cultural readings and illustration of biblical texts. W. Lee Humpheys, spiritual reports evaluation