The Bible and Popular Culture

This book is an accessible overview of the Bible's complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawing on biblical interpretations in TV, film, and music, it demonstrates the enduring diversity of the Bible's reception history, and is an engaging resource for students encountering biblical reception history in popular culture.

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Ole Jakob Løland is Professor of Religion, Life Stance, and Ethics at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He has published extensively on biblical reception in contemporary cultures.

Anders Martinsen is Associate Professor of Religion, Life Stance, and Ethics at the Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. His research has focused on slavery in the New Testament, Bible translations, and the Norwegian Church and the Holocaust.

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This book is an accessible overview of the Bible's complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawing on biblical interpretations in TV, film, and music, it demonstrates the enduring diversity of the Bible's reception history, and is an engaging resource for students encountering biblical reception history in popular culture.

Inhalt

Introduction

1 Book of Genesis: Sex Machine

2 Book of Exodus: Liberation

3 The Book of Psalms: The First Blues

4 Ecclesiastes: Intertextual Echoes

5 The Gospels: The Dispute about Caricatures

6 The Pauline Epistles: The Unpopular Evangelist

7 1 John and 2 John: Anti-Christ as a Guiding Star

8 Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and the End of the World as We Know It

9 The Apocryphal Gospels: Sex, Crucifixion, and Conspiracy

Epilogue: The Bible in a Digital Age