Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Daniel Train, eds. ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018. 198 pp. $25 paperback. The creation of The Saint John’s Bible was a remarkable project…
[Editor’s Note: In the second part of our eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible, Jonathan Homrighausen, author of Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ (reviewed here last week), provides commentary, lectio divina insights and image exegesis on…
What would it look like to interpret a biblical text from the perspective of film? How could we as Bible readers use film to inform our understanding of biblical concepts and themes? Biblical scholar Larry Kreitzer champions a way of…
‘It’s like I’m trapped in a dream or a memory from a life long ago’. Dolores is confused. She isn’t sure why she’s remembering things. Who is she? What is she? The Wild Wild Westworld Dolores is an android played…
Timothy Beal, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts, 2 vol. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible series, these two volumes are devoted to the Bible and the Arts,…
One of the more familiar stories from the Hebrew Bible comes from the ‘Call of Isaiah’ in Isaiah 6. The lines ‘Woe is me!’, ‘Here I am, send me!’ and the Trisagion, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is Yhwh of Armies’, are…
Catherine M. Wallace. The Confrontational Wit of Jesus. Cascade Books; Eugene, Oregon. 2016. 165 pages, Paperback. This book of fifteen chapters seeks to present an introduction to what the author perceives about the wit of Jesus. Wallace sets out the…
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart –Luke 2:19 The emergence of an ending can often usher in moments of clarity. Thus, the potential or reality of death, an impeding geographical re-location or the…
Christopher Calderhead. Illuminating the Word: The Making of The Saint John’s Bible, Second Edition. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2005, 240pp. $49.95 hardcover. Although Christian belief holds that Jesus is the incarnate Word, Christians often neglect the way in which the…