By J. Cheryl Exum
Plotted, Shot, and Painted stakes out new territory for feminist biblical feedback. It considers what occurs to biblical ladies in pop culture, in artwork and in movie, and it foregrounds questions about how gender pursuits impact interpretation and concerning the roles and duties of commentators and readers. This moment revised variation includes an extra bankruptcy, ’Lot and his Daughters’, and an increased bankruptcy on Delilah. Exum’s mastery of biblical scholarship, movie feedback, feminist idea, and an unlimited literary and creative repertoire is overwhelming ... a most appropriate paintings of research and significant considering ... The publication introduces the reader to a very wealthy number of serious studies, which a long way transcends the restrictions of traditional biblical scholarship. Francis Landy, Prooftexts ... a pleasure to read-still realized, but in addition witty and passionate. here's a new form of biblical feedback. we're speaking right here of items that truly subject, issues that experience triggered damage to ladies and likewise to males, and issues which may be made larger ... it truly is approximately cinema, artwork, literature, renowned track, and pornography. In different phrases, it locations the Bible precisely the place it's going to be, on the middle of our cultural adventure from ’high’ artwork to ’low’ paintings ... David Jasper, Biblical Interpretation ... crucial for all eager about literary, feminist, and cultural readings and illustration of biblical texts. W. Lee Humpheys, spiritual reports assessment
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Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house. Because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife—thus says the Lord—I am raising up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the eyes of this sun. For you did it in secret, but I shall do this thing before all Israel and before the sun (2 Sam. 47 In the biblical account, David’s crime is twofold: he had Uriah killed and he took Uriah’s wife.
I cannot help thinking if she has had time to be seen by David and receive the letter and still has not put her clothes on, she must spend a good deal of her time naked. 31 Bathsheba’s body, however, is slightly twisted, as if she were in the act of turning away, and her crossed legs are a modest gesture in relation to the spectator. The pose is ambivalent, making it difficult to decide: is she or is she not an exhibitionist? Mieke Bal, in a brilliant discussion of this painting in her book, Reading ‘Rembrandt’, calls attention to a distortion of structure that requires explanation.
1. 2. Hans Memling, Bathseba im Bade, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. 41 42 Plotted, Shot, and Painted she can keep her balance, and it seems rather awkward for her to be slipping into her dressing gown while still in the process of climbing out of such a high bath. The painting thus gives greater meaning to the precariousness of Bathsheba’s position. Neither Rembrandt’s nor Memling’s Bathsheba meets our voyeuristic gaze. Both are staring into space. Rembrandt’s Bathsheba stares ahead pensively. Memling’s stares vacantly as if she were a sleepwalker getting out of her bed.