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March 29, 2017
Teaching the Bible Through Popular Culture and the Arts
- Author
- Roncace, Mark, and Gray, Patrick, eds.
- Publisher
- Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA
- ISBN
- 9781589832442
- Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Music
Introduction: Teaching the Bible with Music (Mark Roncace and Dan W. Clanton, Jr.)
ch. 1 Popular Music (Mark Roncace and Dan W. Clanton, Jr.)
ch. 2 Classical Music (Dan W. Clanton Jr. and Bryan Bibb)
Part 2: Film
Introduction: Teaching the Bible with Film
ch. 3 The Bible in Film (Nicola Denzey and Patrick Gray)
ch. 4 Nonbiblical Narrative in Film (Nicola Denzey and Patrick Gray)
Part 3: Art
Introduction: Teaching the Bible with Art
ch. 5 Biblical Subjects in Art (Lynn R. Huber, Dan W. Clanton Jr., and Jane S. Webster)
ch. 6 Abstract and Nonbiblical Art (Lynn R. Huber)
Part 4: Literature
Introduction: Teaching the Bible with Literature (Jaime Clark-Soles)
ch. 7 Poetry (Ira Brent Driggers and Brent A. Strawn)
ch. 8 Prose: Fiction and Nonfiction (Jaime Clark-Soles, Patrick Gray, and Brent A. Strawn)
Part 5: Other Media
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ch. 9 Cartoons and Comics (Dan W. Clanton, Jr.)
ch. 10 Youth Literature, Programming, and Entertainment (Mark Roncace)
ch. 11 Animated Television (Dan W. Clanton, Jr, and Mark Roncace)
ch. 12 Television Dramas and Documentation (Dan W. Clanton Jr. and Mark Roncace)
ch. 13 Internet Websites (Mark Roncace)
Indexes
Biblical Texts
Noncanonical Texts
Music
Film
Art
Literature
This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and other media and outlines strategies for incorporating them effectively and concisely in the classroom. Although designed primarily for college and seminary courses on the Bible, the ideas can easily be adapted for classes such as Theology and Literature or Religion and Art as well as for nonacademic settings. (From the Publisher)