The Poetics of Visuality

Ekphrasis, Material Agency, and the Visual Imagination in Biblical Antiquity

Justin J. White (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 279 Seiten

2024
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-163344-7 (ISBN)

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Justin J. White explores the nature of images in ancient Israel through a reconceptualization of the relationship between image and text. He proposes that in ancient Israel, texts evoked images as a core part of their rhetoric. Rather than conceptualizing texts and images as ontologically or functionally distinct media, he argues that both media are mixed media even while neither medium is reducible to the other. In order to make this argument, he focuses on the visual aspects of textual rhetoric-what he terms "the poetics of visuality." He builds his argument across three text-specific axes of visual rhetoric: ekphrasis, the visual imagination and material agency. He makes the claim that each of these three axes are endemic to Israelite literature, and mutually contribute to the formation of a robust ontology of visual representation in ancient Israel.

Born 1983; independent scholar researching ancient and modern iconology, philosophy of visual communication in Mediterranean antiquity, and materiality and religion; 2020 PhD with Distinction from Yale University.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Forschungen zum Alten Testament
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	591 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Schlagworte	Hebrew Bible • Image and Text • Image Ontology • Visual communication
ISBN-10	3-16-163344-X / 316163344X
ISBN-13	978-3-16-163344-7 / 9783161633447
Zustand	Neuware