Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women

by J. Cheryl Exum

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1996

Overview

What many people know of the Bible often comes from popular representations of biblical texts, rather than from studying the Bible itself. How are biblical stories altered through paintings, film, literature, and other forms of popular culture? How do cultural interpretations of women in the Bible affect how we read the story?

In Plotted, Shot, and Painted, J. Cheryl Exum explores the history and state of feminist interpretation of Scripture through the lens of popular culture. She discusses gender bias not only in cultural representation, but also in biblical interpretation and cultural portrayals of women. This fascinating book pursues new ways of understanding feminist biblical interpretation. It extends the scope of inquiry beyond biblical criticism into the broader area of cultural criticism.

Key Features

• Critical textual and literary notes
• All Scripture references linked to the Bibles in your library

Product Details

• Title: Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
• Author: J. Cheryl Exum
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Series: Gender and the Bible Collection
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 260

About J. Cheryl Exum

J. Cheryl Exum (Ph.D.) is professor of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and her MA and PhD, with distinction, from Columbia University in New York. As a doctoral student, she spent a year studying theology and German literature at the University of Göttingen. Before her appointment to a personal chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1993, she taught at Yale University (1975-77) and Boston College (1977-1993). She has done research in Israel (first as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and later as a Visiting Research Associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and in Germany (as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Göttingen and in Heidelberg).

From 2003 to 2005 she was Director of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Modern World. In 2004, with two Sheffield colleagues, David J.A. Clines and Keith W. Whitelam, she founded Sheffield Phoenix Press, now a leading publisher in the field of Biblical Studies.The author of numerous scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible, her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative, Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives as well as Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives. She is executive editor of the journal Biblical Interpretation and a director of Sheffield Phoenix Press.