Burnette-Bletsch - The Bible in Motion A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film

The Bible in Motion

Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception

Volume 2

ISBN 978-1-61451-561-6

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-61451-326-1

e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-5015-0016-9

ISSN 2330-6270

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First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge the authors who so generously contributed their time and expertise to provide essays for these volumes. I also wish to thank to staff at De Gruyter Press especially Alissa Jones Nelson, Albrecht Doehnert, Sophie Wagenhofer, and Sabina Dabrowski for their expert guidance in bringing this project to fruition. Thanks also to Eric Ziolkowski for responding to countless emails with spot-on advice and encouragement.

Gratitude must also be expressed to my former colleagues at Greensboro College, where this project began, and to my current colleagues at Eastern University for embracing me and my research interests. Students have provided insightful feedback in my film courses at both institutions. Among my colleagues, I must make special mention of my dear friend Barnes Tatum, who first introduced me to the academic study of Bible and film and with whom I have shared many invaluable conversations, milkshakes, and French fries over the years.

Finally, special acknowledgement goes to my family: my late father Bob Burnette, who loved movies, and my mother Betty Parrott Burnette, who worries that I will go blind from staring at my laptop screen; my husband John Bletsch, who is always prouder of my work than I am; and my boys, Jonah, Ethan, and Daniel, who enrich my life beyond measure.

Nathan Abrams (Part 2)

Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University

Wales, United Kingdom

Lloyd Baugh (Part 2)

Pontificia Universita Gregoriana (retired)

Rome, Italy

Mary Ann Beavis (Part 1)

Professor of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College

Saskatoon, Canada

Meghan Alexander Beddingfield (Part 2)

Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton, N.J., United States

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch (Parts 1 and 2)

Professor of Biblical Studies, Eastern University

St. Davids, Penn., United States

Peter T. Chattaway (Part 1)

Freelance Writer and Film Critic

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carl S. Ehrlich (Part 1)

Professor of Humanities and Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish

Studies, York University

Toronto, Canada

Robert Ellis (Part 1)

Principal of Regents Park College Oxford and member of the Faculty of Theology and

Religion, University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

J. Sage Elwell (Part 2)

Associate Professor of Religion and Art, Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Tex., United States

J. Cheryl Exum (Part 1)

Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dwight H. Friesen (Part 2)

Independent Scholar

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Samuel D. Giere (Part 2)

Associate Professor of Homiletics and Biblical Interpretation, Wartburg Theological Seminary

Dubuque, Iowa, United States

Sandie Gravett (Part 1)

Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State University

Boone, N.C., United States

R. Christopher Heard (Part 1)

Associate Professor of Religion, Pepperdine University

Malibu, Calif., United States

Carol A. Hebron (Part 2)

Lecturer, Charles Sturt University School of Theology

Brisbane, Australia

N. Frances Hioki (Parts 1 and 2)

Research Associate, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture

Nagoya, Japan

Stephenson Humphries-Brooks (Part 2)

Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Hamilton College

Clinton, N.Y., United States

Clayton N. Jefford (Part 2)

Professor of Scripture, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology

St. Meinrad, Ind., United States

Nathan Jumper (Part 2)

Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton, N.J., United States

Joseph G. Kickasola (Part 2)

Professor of Film and Digital Media, Baylor University

Waco, Tex., United States

J. R. Daniel Kirk (Part 2)

Associate Professor of New Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary

Pasadena, Calif., United States

Jennifer L. Koosed (Part 1)

Professor of Religious Studies, Albright College

Reading, Penn., United States

Anton Karl Kozlovic (Parts 1 and 2)

Research Associate, Flinders University and Deakin University

Adelaide and Melbourne Burwood, Australia

Richard A. Lindsay (Part 2)

Instructor of Communication, University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Lafayette, La., United States

Chris Lindvall (Part 1)

Associate Writer for Walt Disney

Hollywood, Calif., United States

Terry Lindvall (Part 1)

C. S. Lewis Endowed Chair of Communication and Christian Thought, Virginia Wesleyan College

Norfolk, Virg., United States

Marie-Therese Mder (Part 2)

Research and Teaching Associate, University of Zurich

Zrich, Switzerland

Peter Malone (Part 1)

Film Reviewer, SIGNIS, World Catholic Association for Communication

Melbourne, Australia

Catherine OBrien (Part 2)

Senior Lecturer of Film Studies and French, Kingston University

London, United Kingdom

Fumi Ogura (Parts 1 and 2)

Assistant Professor of Media Theories and Production, Aichi Shukutoku University

Nagoya, Japan

Gaye Williams Ortiz (Parts 1 and 2)

Independent Scholar

Augusta, Ga., United States

Matthew Page (Parts 1 and 2)

Independent Scholar

Loughborough, United Kingdom

Tina Pippin (Part 1)

Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion, Agnes Scott College

Decatur, Ga., United States

Jeremy Punt (Part 2)

Professor of New Testament, Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Adele Reinhartz (Parts 1 and 2)

Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Canada

Matthew S. Rindge (Part 1)

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University

Spokane, Wash., United States

Erin Runions (Part 2)

Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty of Gender and Womens Studies, Pomona College

Claremont, Calif., United States

Theresa Sanders (Part 1)

Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University

Washington, D.C., United States

Robert Paul Seesengood (Part 1)

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of Classical Languages, Albright College

Reading, Penn., United States

David J. Shepherd (Part 1)

Lecturer of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Antonio D. Sison (Part 2)

Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Historical and Doctrinal Studies

Department, Catholic Theological Union