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We offer here the beginnings of a print bibliography.
Materials are listed alphabetically by author under three categories:
The Bible and Visual Art (general or inclusive works)
The Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) and Visual Art
The New Testament and Visual Art
The Bible and Visual Art
Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work.
New Haven and London: Yale University, 1992.
Alloisi, Sivigliano. Galleria Corsini. The National Gallery of Classical
Art. Rome: Fratelli Palombi Editori, 1992.
Ancona, P., and E. Aeschlimann. The Art of Illumination: An Anthology
of Manuscripts From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century. London: Phardon
Press, Ltd., 1969.
Berdini, Paolo. The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting As Visual
Exegesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1997.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B. The Bible for Children From the Age of Gutenberg
to the Present. New Haven & London: Yale University Press: , 1996.
Bucher, F. The Pampelona Bible. Vols. 1 and 2. New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 1970.
Camille, Michael. The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval
Art. New York: Cambridge University, 1991.
Dowley, Dr. Tim. The Bible in Stained Glass. Ridgefield, CT: Morehouse
Publishing, 1990.
Goethals, Gregor T. “The Imaged Word: Aesthetics, Fidelity, and New
Media Translations.” Pages 133-72 in Fidelity and Transltion:
Communicating the Bible in New Media. Edited by Paul A. Soukup, S.J.,
and Robert Hodgson. Franklin, WI/New York: Sheed & Ward/American Bible
Society, 1999.
Grabar, Andre. Christian Iconography. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1968.
Grossinger, Christa. Picturing Women in Late Medieval Art. Manchester
University Press, 1997.
Haber, Beth K. Drawing on the Bible: Biblical Women in Art. New
York: Biblio Press, 1995.
De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. 1986.
Repr. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1995.
Hassall. W. O. The Holkham Bible Picture Book. London: Dropmore
Press, 1954.
Hoekstra, Hidde, ed. Rembrandt and the Bible. Utrecht: Magna Books,
1990.
Jensen, Robin. Understanding Early Christian Art. New York: Routledge
Press, 2000.
Kessler, H. The Illustrated Bibles From Tours. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1941.
Lipton, Sara. “The Un-Moralized Bible.” Bible Review
17, no. 2 (2001): 30-7, 48-50.
Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers. The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of
Junius Bassus: NEOFITVS ITT AD DEUM. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1990.
Mariacher, Giovanni. Mosaici Di San Marco. Milano: Kina Italia,
1992.
Mathews, Thomas. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian
Art. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Moser, Barry, Engraver/Illustrator. Reproduced in The Holy Bible,
Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999.
Pippin, Tina. Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in
Text and Image. New York: Routledge Press, 1999.
Safarik, Eduard A. Galleria Doria Pamphilj. Masterpieces: Paintings.
Translated by Christopher Evans. Florence: Arti Grafiche “Stampa
Nazionale”, 1996.
Snyder, Graydon. Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life
before Constantine. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985.
Sölle, Dorothée, Joe H. Kirchberger, and Anne-Marie Schnieper-M¸ller.
Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature. Grand Rapids, MI:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993.
Stefanescu, J.-D. Iconographie de la Bible. Images bibliques commentèes.
Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1938.
Takenaka, Masao, and Ron O’Grady. The Bible Through Asian Eyes.
Auckland, New Zealand: Pace Publishing/Asian Christian Art Association,
1991.
Usherwood, Nicholas. The Bible in 20th Century Art. London: Pagoda,
1987.
Valcanover, Francesco. Jacopo Tintoretto and the Scuola Grande of San
Rocco. Venezia: Storti Edizioni, 1997.
The Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) and Visual Art
Adams, Ann Jensen, ed. Rembrandt’s ‘Bathsheba with King David’s
Letter’. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996?
Anderson, Gary A. “Is Eve the Problem?” Pages 96-123 in Theological
Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs. Edited by Christopher
Seitz, and Kathryn Green-McCreight. Grand Rapids,MI/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans,
1999.
Anderson, Jaynie. “The Head-Hunter and the Head-Huntress in Italian
Religious Portraiture.” Pages 60-9 in Vernacular Christianity:
Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion Presented to Godfrey Lienhardt.
Edited by Wendy James, and Douglas H. Johnson. New York: Lilian Barber
Press, 1988.
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. “`The Lord Has Struck Him Down by the
Hand of a Woman!’ Images of Judith.” Pages 81-97 in Art
As Religious Studies. Edited by Doug Adams, and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona.
New York: Crossroad, 1987.
Bal, Mieke. “A Body of Writing: Judges 19.” Continuum
1, no. 2 (1991): 110-26.
Bal, Mieke. “Head Hunting: `Judith’ on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge.”
JSOT 63 (1994): 3-34.
Bal, Mieke. “Lots of Writing.” Semeia 54 (1991): 77-102.
Bal, Mieke. “Myth à la Lettre: Freud, Mann, Genesis
and Rembrandt, and the Story of the Son.” Pages 343-78 in A Feminist
Companion to Genesis. Edited by Athalya Brenner. Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1993.
Bal, Mieke. On Meaning-Making. Essays in Semiotics. Sonoma,
CA: Polebridge Press, 1994.
Bal, Mieke. Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Bal, Mieke. Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Bezuidenhout, L. C. “Voorstellings van Batseba: Intertekstualiteit
in literere kuns, beeldende kuns en werklikheid [Representations of Bathsheba;
Intertextuality in literary art, the visual arts, and reality].”
HTS 53 (1997): 529-42.
The Bible: Old Testament. Illustrated Selections. New York:
Henry Holt and Company, 1994.
Bier, Carol. “Textile Arts in Ancient Western Asia.” Pages 1567-88
in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. III. Edited by
Jack M. Sasson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995.
Bohn, Babette. “Rape and the Gendered Gaze: Susanna and the Elders
in Early Modern Bologna.” BibInt 9, no. 3 (2001): 259-86.
Brenner, Athalya, and Jan Willem van Henten. “Madame Potiphar Through
a Culture Trip, or, Which Side Are You on?” Pages 203-19 in Biblical
Studies/Cultural Studies. The Third Sheffield Colloquium. Edited
by J. Cheryl Exum, and Stephen D. Moore. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1998.
Camille, Michael. Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the
Making of Medieval England. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998.
Carraci, Agostino. “Judith with the Head of Holofernes.” Italian
(Bologna). Reproduced in Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1557-1602.
Chagall, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications,
1995.
Christiansen, Keith, and Judith W. Mann. Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi.
New Haven: Yale University, 2001.
Cockerell, S. C., and M. R. James. A Book of Old Testament Illustrations
of the Middle of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: , 1927.
Cornelius, Izak. “Some Pages From the Reception History of Genesis
3: The Visual Arts.” JNSL 23, no. 2 (1997): 221-34.
“Detail: The Fall of Man.” BRev 13, no. 5 (1997): 48.
Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art
and Literature. University Park, PA: Penn State University, 1997.
Exum, J. Cheryl. “Beyond the Biblical Horizon: The Bible and the
Arts.” Pages 1-7 in Beyond the Biblical Horizon: The Bible and
the Arts. Edited by J. Cheryl Exum. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Exum, J. Cheryl. “Desire Distorted and Exhibited: Lot and His Daughters
in Psychoanalysis, Painting, and Film.” Pages 83-108 in “A
Wise and Discerning Mind”: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long.
Edited by Saul M. Olyan, and Robert C. Culley. Providence, RI: Brown University,
2000.
Exum, J. Cheryl. Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations
of Biblical Women. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.
Fewell, Danna Nolan, and Gary A. Phillips. “Drawn to Excess, or Reading
Beyond Betrothal.” Semeia 77 (1997): 23-58.
Frankel, Ellen. The Illustrated Hebrew Bible. New York: Stewart,
Tabori & Chang, 1999.
Gaehde, J. E. “The Pictorial Sources of the Illustrations to the
Books of Kings, Proverbs, Judith and Maccabees in the Carolingian Bible
of San Paolo Fuori le Mura in Rome”.” Frühmittelalterliche
Studien 9 (1975): 359-89.
Gaines, Janet Howe. Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel Through the Ages.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University, 1999.
Garrard, Mary. “Artemesia and Susanna.” Pages 146-71 in Artemesia
Gentileschi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Garrard, Mary. “Judith.” Pages 278-336 in Artemesia Gentileschi.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Garrard, Mary D. Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and
Reshaping of an Artistic Identity. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2001.
Gitay, Zefira. “Esther and the Queen’s Throne.” Pages 136-48
in A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna. Edited by
Athalya Brenner. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.
Gitay, Zefira. “Hagar’s Expulsion - a Tale Twice-Told in Genesis.”
BRev 2 (1986): 26-32.
Gitay, Zefira. “Prophet and Prophecy: An Artistic Dilemma.”
Pages 149-63 in Prophecy and Prophets: The Diversity of Contemporary
Issues in Scholarship. Edited by Yehoshua Gitay. Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1997.
Haber, Beth K. Drawing on the Bible: Biblical Women in Art.
New York: Biblio Press, 1995.
Hourihane, Colum, ed. King David in the Index of Christian Art.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2002.
Jolly, Penny Howell. Made in God’s Image? Eve and Adam in
the Genesis Mosaics At San Marco, Venice. Berkeley: University of
California, 1997.
Kaai, Anneke. The Psalms:An Artist’s Impression. Carlisle,
JK: Piquant, 1999.
Kramer, Phyllis Silverman. “Jephthah’s Daughter: A Thematic
Approach to the Narrative As Seen in Selected Rabbinic Exegesis and in
Artwork.” Pages 67-92 in Judges: A Feminist Companion to the Bible
(Second Series). Edited by Athalya Brenner. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1999.
Landy, Francis. “From Tragedy to Art and Film: Cheryl Exum’s
Contribution to Biblical Studies.” Prooftexts 18, no. 1 (1998):
95-102.
Lincoln, Frances. Stories From the Old Testament with Paintings From
Galleries Around the World. london: Frances Lincoln Limited, 1996.
Link, Howard A. Waves and Plagues: A Catalog of Masami Teraoka 1988-89
Traveling Exhibit. Honolulu/San Francisco: The Contemporary Museum
and Chronical Books, 1988.
Lipton, Sara. Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and
Judaism in the “Bible Moralisée”. University of California
Press, 1999.
Lowden, John. The Making of the ‘Bibles Moralisèes’.
II. The Book of Ruth. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University,
2000.
Marcus, Michelle I. “Art and Ideology in Ancient Western Asia.”
Pages 2487-505 in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol.
IV. Edited by Jack M. Sasson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1995.
Maus, Cynthia Pearl. The Old Testament and the Fine Arts. New York:
Harper & Row, 1954.
McKenzie, A. Dean. “Michelangelo’s Masterpiece Reclaimed.”
BRev 12, no. 6 (1996): 42-50.
Meinhardt, Molly Dewsnap. “Seven Luminous Days: The Creation Mosaics
of Monreale.” Bible Review 18, no. 4 (2002): 17-23.
Miles, Jack. “Casting Genesis: George Segal’s Biblical Sculptures.”
BRev 16, no. 2 (2000): 40-9, 52.
Milgrom, Jo. “Giving Eve’s Daughter Their Due.” BRev
12, no. 1 (1996): 30-6, 48.
Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Leon
Amiel Publisher, 1969.
Noel, William. The Harley Psalter. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
O’Kane, Martin. “The Biblical King David and His Artistic and
Literary Afterlives.” Pages 55-89 in Beyond the Biblical Horizon:
The Bible and the Arts. Edited by J. Cheryl Exum. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
O’Kane, Martin, ed. Borders, Boundaries and the Bible. London:
Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
O’Kane, Martin, ed. Interpreting the Bible: Breaching Borders,
Crossing Boundaries. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Paintings by Masami Teraoka. New York/Tokyo: Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery/Weatherhill, Inc., n.d.
Pessach, Gill, ed. Landscape of the Bible: Sacred Scenes in European
Master Paintings. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2000.
Phillips, John A. Eve: The History of an Idea. San Francisco: Harper
& Row, 1984.
Raver, Miki. Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible. San
Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
Russell, H. Diane. Eva/Ave. Women in Renaissance and Baroque
Prints. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990.
Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle. The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts.
New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
Sherwood, Yvonne. “Of Fruit and Corpses and Wordplay Visions: Picturing
Amos 8.1-3.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 92
(2001): 5-27.
Sölle, Dorothée, Joe H. Kirchberger, and Anne-Marie Schnieper-Müller.
Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature. Grand Rapids, MI:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993.
Soltes, Ori Z. “The Bible and Art At the End of the Millenium: Words,
Ideas and Images.” Pages 163-96 in Sacred Text, Secular Times:
The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World. Edited by Leonard Jay Greenspoon,
and Bryan F. Lebeau. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2000.
Spijkerboer, Anne M. “Rembrandt und Hagar.” Pages 21-31 in Unless
Some One Guide Me...Festschrift for Karel A. Deurloo. Edited by J.W.
Dyk, P.J. Van Midden, K. Spronk, G.J. Venema, and R. Zuurmond. Maastricht:
Shaker, 2001.
Stevenson, John. Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology,
the Floating World Comes of Age. Seattle/London: University of Washington
Press, 1997.
Stocker, Margarita. Judith: Sexual Warrior Women and Power in Western
Culture. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Stone, Nira. “Judith and Holofernes: Some Observations on the
Development of the Scene in Art.” Pages 73-93 in “No One
Spoke Ill of Her”: Essays on Judith. Edited by James C.
VanderKam. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.
Terrien, Samuel L. The Iconography of Job through the Centuries: Artists
as Biblical Interpreters. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1996.
Ulak, James T., Alexandra Munroe, Masami Teraoka, and Lynda Hess. Paintings
by Masami Teraoka. Washington DC/New York/Tokyo: Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery/Weatherhill, Inc., 1997.
Vrudny, Kimberly. “‘You Shall Know Them by Their Fruits’:
Etchings on Biblical Themes by Joan Bohlig.” Arts. The Arts
in Religious and TS 9, no. 1 (1997): 9-12.
Vrudny, Kimberly. “Medieval Treatment of the Queen: Austrian Manuscripts
and the Quest for Esther.” Arts. The Arts in Religious and
TS 8, no. 1 (1995): 14-21.
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, ed. Images of Inspiration: The Old Testament
in Early Christian Art. Bible Lands Museum, 2000.
Wieder, Laurance, ed. King Solomon’s Garden: Poems and Art Inspired
by the Old Testament. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.
Wolfthal, Diane. “`A Hue and a Cry’: Medieval Rape Imagery
and Its Transformation.” Art Bulletin 75, no. 1 (1993): 39-64.
Wolfthal, Diane. Images of Rape: The `Heroic’ Tradition and Its
Alternatives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
The New Testament and Visual Art
Carey, Frances, ed. The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come.
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1999.
Cartlidge, David and Keith Elliott. Art and the Christian Apocrypha.
New York: Routledge Press, 2001.
Lewis, Suzanne. Reading Images: Narrative Discourse and Reception in
the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Marsh, Clive. “Rembrandt Reads the Gospels: Form, Context,
and Theological Responsibility in New Testament Interpretation.”
Scottish Journal of Theology 50 (1997): 399-413.
Smith, Robert H. Apocalypse: A Commentary on Revelation in Words and
Images. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001.
Sölle, Dorothée, Joe H. Kirchberger, and Anne-Marie Schnieper-Müller.
Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature. Grand Rapids, MI:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993.
Steinberg, Leo. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern
Oblivion. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Stichele, Caroline Vander. “Apocalypse, Art and Abjection: Images
of the Great Whore.” Pages 124-38 in Culture, Entertainment and
the Bible. Edited by George Aichele. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 2000.
Young, Ginger, and David Vintinner. “That Ol’ Time Religion:
American Folk Artists Depict Apocalyptic Texts.” BRev 13,
no. 5 (1997): 36-44.