Overview

This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean perspectives, contributors explore the innovative ways that both creators and beholders of Oceanic arts draw upon their contexts and cultures in order to open up creative engagements with the stories, themes and theologies of the biblical traditions. Various motifs weave their way throughout the volume, including antipodean landscapes and ecology, (post)colonialism, philosophy, Oceanic spiritualities and the often contested engagements between western and indigenous cultures. Within this weaving process, each essay invites readers to contemplate these various forms of visual culture through Oceanic eyes, and to appreciate the fresh insights that this process can bring to reading and interpreting the biblical traditions. The result is a rich and interdisciplinary array of conversations that will capture the attention of readers within the fields of biblical reception studies, cultural studies, theology and art history.

Full Product Details

Author:   Dr Caroline Blyth (University of Auckland, New Zealand) ,  Rev Dr Nasili Vaka’uta (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9780567683854

ISBN 10:   0567683850
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction – Caroline Blyth and Nasili Vaka’uta 1. Analogies with Anathoth: Reading Land, Reading Jeremiah in the Paintings of Michael Shepherd – Emily Colgan, Trinity Methodist College, New Zealand 2. Darryn George: The Meeting of Modernism and Maori Tradition – Robin Woodward, University of Auckland, New Zealand 3. The Absurdly Ideal Jesus of Reg Mombassa – Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia 4. Architectural Expression of the Body of Christ – Murray Rae, University of Otago, New Zealand 5. Art as Method: Visualising Interpretation Through Tongan Ngatu – Nasili Vaka’uta, Trinity Methodist College, New Zealand 6. Sister Gael O’Leary: A Road Less Travelled – Robin Woodward, University of Auckland, New Zealand 7. Exploring Visual Exegesis: A Conversation Between Artist and Beholders – Caroline Blyth, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Alex Farrell, Independent Scholar 8. Michael Riley’s Bible and the Touch of the Text (With Reference to the Gospel of Luke) – Anne Elvey, Monash University, Australia 9. Tatauing Cain: Reading the Sign on Cain from the Ground – Jione Havea, Charles Sturt University, Australia 10. Terry Stringer: From Scripture to Sculpture – Robin Woodward, University of Auckland, New Zealand 11. Berešît: Countersigning Maria O’Connor’s Equus’ Ashes with Derrida’s L’animal – Yael Klangwisan, Laidlaw College, New Zealand 12. Is this the Place? The Promised Land in Colin McCahon’s Paintings – Judith Brown, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 13. Of Birth and Death: Hearing and Seeing Then and Now – Elaine Wainwright, University of Auckland, New Zealand 14. ‘The Painting is Suffering’: Maori and Pasefika Boys Respond to Images of Christ and Peter – Jacky Sewell, Ripon College Cuddesdon, UK Index of Biblical References Index of Authors

Reviews

This unique volume in the Scriptural Traces series invites readers to engage with the reception of the bible in and through antipodean eyes. * The Expository Times * Takes readers on a fascinating art-historical journey ... Richly illustrated ... [it] is recommended to all who are interested in the impact of historical aspects of the Bible outside the Western tradition . * Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (Bloomsbury Translation) * Caroline Blyth and Nasili Vaka'uta offer an interesting and wide range of perspectives on the reception of the Bible in art from Oceania in this edited volume. * Die Bibel in der Kunst / Bible in the Arts *

This unique volume in the Scriptural Traces series invites readers to engage with the reception of the bible in and through antipodean eyes. * The Expository Times * Takes readers on a fascinating art-historical journey ... Richly illustrated ... [it] is recommended to all who are interested in the impact of historical aspects of the Bible outside the Western tradition . * Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (Bloomsbury Translation) *

This unique volume in the Scriptural Traces series invites readers to engage with the reception of the bible in and through antipodean eyes. * The Expository Times *

Author Information

Caroline Blyth is a lecturer of Religious Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Nasili Vaka’uta is the Principal of Trinity Theological College, Auckland, and Ranston Lecturer in Biblical Studies, New Zealand.

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