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The Poetics of Visuality: Ekphrasis, Material Agency, and the Visual Imagination in Biblical Antiquity

by Justin J. White

  • Hardback
  • 294 pages
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 16.4 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm

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For students of biblical history and visual art

Explains the complex link between image and scripture

Deepens your grasp of how ancient writers saw God

Discover how images and texts worked together to shape the worldview of ancient Israel.

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Justin J. White proposes reconceptualizing the relationship between image and text in ancient Israel as one that characterizes both media as mixed media. He argues that texts evoked images as a core part of their rhetoric-what he terms "the poetics of visuality."

  • Title

    The Poetics of Visuality: Ekphrasis, Material Agency, and the Visual Imagination in Biblical Antiquity

  • Author

    Justin J. White

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    November 2024

  • Weight

    586g

  • Page Count

    294

  • Dimensions

    16.4 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161633447

  • ISBN-10

    316163344X

  • Eden Code

    7275209