Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977–93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto iii (Reichenau, 998–1000): Visual Exegesis in Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-51
Keyword(s):  
Visual Exegesis

Visual Exegesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-77
Author(s):  
Donovan McAbee
Keyword(s):  
Visual Exegesis

The Artist as Reader of the Bible. Visual Exegesis and the Adoration of the Magi

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Image Viewer ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
Textual Meaning

AbstractThe article explores the processes at work in a painting's engagement of its viewer in biblical subject matter. It accentuates the role of the artist as an active reader of the Bible and not merely an illustrator of biblical scenes, the dynamic that occurs in the text-reader process as paradigmatic for the image-viewer relationship and the important role of the developing tradition that felt the need to change or rewrite the biblical story. The processes are explored in terms of hermeneutics and exegesis: hermeneutics defined as 'the interweaving of language and life within the horizon of the text and within the horizons of traditions and the modern reader' (Gadamer) and exegesis as 'the dialectic between textual meaning and the reader's existence' (Berdini). Applied to the visualization of biblical subject matter, the approaches of Gadamer and Berdini illumine the key role given to the viewer in the visual hermeneutical process. The biblical story of the adoration of the Magi (Matt. 2: 1-12), the first public and universal seeing of Christ and one of the most frequently depicted themes in the entire history of biblical art, is used to illustrate their approach. The emphasis in the biblical narrative on revealing the Christ child to the reader parallels a key concept in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics, namely Darstellung, the way in which a painting facilitates its subject matter in coming forth, in becoming an existential event in the life of the viewer.

The Exegetical Jerusalem: Maps and Plans for Ezekiel Chapters 40–48

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Delano-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Literal Interpretation ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Jewish Scholar ◽  
Nicholas Of Lyra ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
The Temple

Drawing for explanation flourished in the medieval West in biblical exegesis. Some Christian and Jewish scholars, holding that the literal meaning of the holy scriptures had to be established before the allegorical and typological meanings could be reached, made good use of visual exegesis. Of the few Christian scholars who attempted a literal interpretation of the notoriously difficult Old Testament book of the prophet Ezekiel, one was Richard of St Victor (In visionem Ezechielis, before 1173) and another was Nicholas of Lyra (Postilla literalis super totam Bibliam,1323–32), who had read Richard's work and also, like him, seen the Jewish scholar Rashi's illustrations for Ezekiel. Both Richard and Nicholas supported their arguments with the plans of Ezekiel's visionary temple and the map that places the temple in its regional context discussed in this essay. Also discussed is the subsequent adaptation of these medieval diagrammatic maps for a quite different readership.

Visual Exegesis

2013 ◽  
pp. 157-191
Author(s):  
Susan Gillingham
Keyword(s):  
Visual Exegesis

scholarly journals Tobacco visions: shamanic drawings of the Wauja Indians

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristoteles Barcelos Neto
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Animal Spirits ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
Pencil And Paper ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethnographic Collections

Abstract This article analyzes shamanic drawings based on research of two ethnographic collections gathered between 1978 and 2004 among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu. The drawings present a visual interpretation of animal-spirits (the apapaatai) and their transformations, as seen by Wauja shamans in tobacco-induced trances and dreams. This article argues that drawing on paper allowed the shamans to broadly express their understanding of the many potential bodily forms the apapaatai can take, either voluntarily or involuntarily. The lack of a visual canon for visual representation of the apapaatai on paper gave the shamans the freedom to produce drawings which reflect an extraordinary diversity of singular perspectives. These singularities, when associated with the narratives of myths and dreams, potentiate the drawings as a kind of visual exegesis of Wauja cosmology. Further analysis considering material culture objects shows that the appropriation of pencil and paper by Wauja shamans channelled their creative energy towards an unexpected expansion in the conceptual boundaries of shamanic translation.

Becoming the Past: Time and Memory in Stanley Fung’s Biblical Icons

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Su-Chi Lin
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Visual Exegesis

Abstract This paper analyzes a contemporary Taiwanese artist Stanley Fung’s portrait photography and his contextual biblical interpretation of time and memory: the experience of the coming of the kingdom can be lingered on in an artist’s imagination. As a biblical interpreter, Fung’s visual exegesis asks the viewer to reconsider how the historical consciousness of self and community together impact one’s sense of time. Fung uses clothing and plants to invoke the viewer’s longing for a new, local culture where the gospel can be dressed, and a new soil where it can be planted. Photography as a legitimate extension of the sacred text engages the viewer’s biblical imagination and demands a response. Eternal beings and Christian anthropology, as manifested in Fung’s work serve to remind us of the distinction between memory and the sacred, life and destruction, creation and redemption.

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