The Art of Visual Exegesis: Rhetoric, Texts, Images - Hardcover

by Vernon K. Robbins (Editor), Walter S. Melion (Editor), Roy R. Jeal (Editor)

Essays from biblical scholars and art historians provide resources for understanding the relation of texts to artistic paintings and images. Additionally, contributors offer resources for understanding language that prompts mental picturing and visual objects that prompt mental imaging and meditation. Readers will master the tools necessary for integrating multiple approaches both to biblical and artistic interpretation.