Clifford, Richard J. and Roland E. Murphy. "Genesis." In
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (ed. Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer and Roland E. Murphy; Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1990) 8-43. Read with this the material on the authorship of the Pentateuch in the same volume: Roland E. Murphy, "Introduction to the Pentateuch," pp. 3-7.
Batto, Bernard F. In the Beginning: Essays on Creation Motifs in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 9. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
Bird, Phyllis A. "'Male and Female He Created Them': Gen 1:27B in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation." Harvard Theological Review 74:2 (1981) 129-59.
Blenkinsopp, Joseph. "The Structure of P." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 38 (1976) 275-92.
Boomershine, Thomas E. "The Structure of Narrative Rhetoric in Genesis 2-3." Semeia 18 (1980) 113-29.
Boorer, Suzanne. The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
Clark, W. Malcolm. "Legal Background of the Yahwist's Use of 'Good and Evil' in Genesis 2-3." Journal of Biblical Literature 88:3 (1969) 266-278.
Coote, Robert B. and David Robert Ord. In the Beginning: Creation and the Priestly History. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Lacocque, André. The Trial of Innocence: Adam, Eve, and the Yahwist. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2006.
Meyer, Esias E. "Divide and Be Different: Priestly Identity in the Persian Period." Hervormde teologiese studies/Theological Studies 68:1 (2012) Art. #1202, 6 pages. Online, http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v68i1.1202.
McDowell, Catherine L. The "Image of God" in the Garden of Eden: The Creation of Humankind in Genesis 2:5–3:24 in Light of the mis pi pit pi and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 15. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
Moskala, Jiří. "A Fresh Look at Two Genesis Creation Accounts: Contradictions?" Andrews University Seminary Studies 49:1 (2011) 45-65.
Quine, Catherine. "Deutero-Isaiah, J and P: Who Is the Image and Likeness of God? Implications for אדם and Theologies of Creation." Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 29:2 (2015) 296-306.
Thompson, Prince E. S. "Yahwist Creation Story." Vetus Testamentum 21:2 (1971) 197-208.
Van Seters, John. The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
Giffen, Elliott and Hampton, The Bible: Eden, 2d ed. (illustration, 2010)
Genesis Frontispiece: Creation (Gen 1:1–2:3), Donald Jackson, with contributions by Chris Tomlin (2003)
Primary Text Citation
Jackson, Donald, with contributions by Chris Tomlin. Genesis Frontispiece: Creation (Gen 1:1–2:3). 2003. Illuminated manuscript. The Saint John's Bible, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.
Jackson, Donald, with contributions by Chris Tomlin. Adam and Eve (Gen 2:4-24). 2003. Illuminated manuscript. The Saint John's Bible, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.
Chagall, Marc. Adam and Eve. 1978–1985. Stained glass. St. Stephan Church, Mainz, Germany.
Mode
Reid, Stephen Breck. "The Art of Marc Chagall: An Interpretation of Scripture." In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 70-80.
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Lewis, Michael J. "Whatever Happened to Marc Chagall?" Commentary126:3 (2008) 36-41.
Jeffrey, David L. "Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall." Religion and the Arts 16:3 (2012) 211-230.
Werner, Alfred. "Marc Chagall and His Bible Illustrations." The Reconstructionist 23:10 (1957) 6-14.
The Creation of Man, Marc Chagall (1958)
Primary Text Citation
Chagall, Marc. La Création de l'Homme [The Creation of Man]. 1958. Oil on canvas. 200.5 x 299 cm. Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France.
Mode
Reid, Stephen Breck. "The Art of Marc Chagall: An Interpretation of Scripture." In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 70-80.
Michelangelo. Creazione di Adamo [The Creation of Man]. 1508– 1512. Fresco. 280 cm x 570 cm. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
Mode
Minear, Paul S. "On Seeing the Good News." Theology Today 55:2 (1998) 163-74.
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Barolsky, Paul. "The Genius of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and the Blindness of Art History." Notes in the History of Art 33:1 (2013) 21-4.
Emison, Patricia. "Michelangelo's Adam, before and after Creation." Gazette des Beaux Arts (October 1988) 115-18.
Rzepińska, Maria. "The Divine Wisdom of Michelangelo in 'The Creation of Adam.'" Artibus et Historie 15:29 (1994) 181-187.
Schuyler, Jane. "The Cabalistic Doctrine of the Deity Reflected in Two Genesis Scenes of Michelangelo's 'Sistine Ceiling.'" Southeastern College Art Conference Review 10:5 (1985) 238-46.
Steinberg, Leo. "Who's Who in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam: A Chronology of the Picture's Reluctant Self-Revelation." Art Bulletin 74 (1992) 552-66.
The Fall (Gen 3:1-24), Donald Jackson, with contributions by Chris Tomlin (2003)
Primary Text Citation
Jackson, Donald, with contributions by Chris Tomlin. The Fall (Gen 3:1-24). 2003. Illuminated manuscript. The Saint John's Bible, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.
Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, Marc Chagall (1961)
Primary Text Citation
Chagall, Marc. Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis [Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise]. 1961. Oil on canvas. 283.5 x 190.5 cm. Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France.
Mode
Reid, Stephen Breck. "The Art of Marc Chagall: An Interpretation of Scripture." In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 70-80.
The Creation of Wartime III, Samuel Bak (1999–2008)
Primary Text Citation
(in order of appearance, right)
Bak, Samuel. Creation. 1999. Oil on canvas. 76 x 102 cm. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States.
Bak, Samuel. The Creation of Wartime III. 1999–2008. Oil on canvas. 127 x 190.5 cm. Private Collection.
Bak, Samuel. Searching. 1999. Oil on canvas. 81.3 x 101.6 cm. Pucker Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Bak, Samuel. "Samek & Samek." Religion and the Arts 4:1 (2000) 76-86.
Fewell, Danna Nolan, and Gary A. Phillips. "From Bak to the Bible: Imagination, Interpretation, and Tikkun Olam." ARTS 21:1 (2010) 21-30.
Fewell, Danna Nolan, Gary A. Phillips and Yvonne Sherwood, eds. Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Fewell, Danna Nolan. "From Bak to the Bible: Imagination, Interpretation, and Tikkun Olam." ARTS 23:2 (2012) 33-44.
Fishbane, Michael A. "Visions: The Painting of Samuel Bak." Criterion 34 (1995) 24-30.
Groppe, Elizabeth Teresa. "A Broken Paradise: The Art of Samuel Bak and Spirituality in the Anthropocene." In An Unexpected Wilderness: Christianity and the Natural World (ed. Colleen Mary Carpenter; College Theology Society Annual Volume 61, 2015; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2016) 19-32.
Knight, Henry F. "Before Whom Do We Stand?" Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28:3 (2010) 116-134.
Langer, Lawrence L. In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, Pucker Art Publications. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Langer, Lawrence L. and Samuel Bak. Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak. Boston: Brandeis University Press/Pucker Gallery, 1997.
Miscall, Peter D. "Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak." The Bible & Critical Theory 6:3 (2010).
Parker, B. J. "A Vision of Hope and Fear: Creative Research and Ezekiel I." Review & Expositor 111:4 (2014) 390-400.
Phillips, Gary A. "Icons of Just Is: Justice, Suffering, and the Artwork of Samuel Bak." Religions 8:6 (2017) 1-22.
Socha, Kimberly. "Outside the Reign of Logic, Outside the Reach of God: Hester Panim in the Surreal Art of Paul Celan and Samuel Bak." War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 22:1 (2010) 77-91.
Yosef, Ute Ben. "The Art of Samuel Bak." Jewish Affairs 68:1 (2013) 5-11
Creation Museums
Primary Text Citations
The museum websites and their virtual tours are your primary texts
Answers in Genesis. Creation Museum and Ark Encounter. Petersburg, Kentucky. Online, http://creationmuseum.org, accessed [your access date].
Baugh, Carl Edward, Founder. Creation Evidence Museum of Texas. Glen Rose, Texas. Online, http://www.creationevidence.org, accessed [your access date].
Butler, Ella. "God is in the Data: Epistemologies of Knowledge at the Creation Museum." Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 75:3 (2010) 229-251.
Hege, Brent. "Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection." Theology and Science 12:2 (2014) 142-163.
Jaffe, Jerry C. "’I Needed to Go to this Tabernacle of Ignorance’: Marc Maron’s Critique of the Creation Museum." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42:3 (2013) 27-31.
Kelly, Casey Ryan and Kristen E. Hoerl. "Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum." Argumentation and Advocacy 48:3 (2012) 123-141.
Lynch, John. "’Prepare to Believe’: The Creation Museum as Embodied Conversion Narrative." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 16:1 (2013) 1-27.
Moore, Randy. "Did Humans Live with Dinosaurs? Excavating ’Man Tracks’ along the Paluxy River." American Biology Teacher (University of California Press) 76:4 (2014) 243-246.
--------. "Embodying Sacred History: Performing Creationism for Believers." TDR: The Drama Review 56:1 (2012) 93-113.
Thomas, Paul. Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 684/Scriptural Traces 17. New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
Williams, Peter W. "Creation Museum." Material Religion 4:3 (2008) 373-375.
BIG Bible Town: God Created the World, 3rd Day Games (2006)
Primary Text Citation
3rd Day Games. "BIG Bible Town: God Created the World." Bible Champions II. Windows. 2006.
Mode
Robson, Jon and Aaron Meskin. "Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74:2 (2016) 165-77.
Wagner, Rachel. Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality. New York: Routledge, 2012. [esp. ch. 2]
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Bak, Meredith A. "Building Blocks of the Imagination." Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television 78 (2016) 53-64.
Lucas, Paul A. "The Video Game Soap Opera: Storytelling and Plot Development in Video Games." Florida Communication Journal 43:2 (2015) 91-102.
Stanfill, Mel. "The Interface as Discourse: The Production of Norms through Web Design." New Media and Society 17:7 (2015) 1154-69.
Wellenreiter, Michael. "Screenwriting and Authorial Control in Narrative Video Games." Journal of Screenwriting 6:3 (2015) 343-61.
For further resources on animating children's Bibles, see the next entry.
The Bible BooClips: Creation, Castle Builders (2015)
Primary Text Citation
Castle Builders. The Bible BooClips: Creation. Online animated book, http://www.bookclip.com/#/.
Mode
Unsworth, Len. "Persuasive Narratives: Evaluative Images in Picture Books and Animated Movies." Visual Communication 14:1 (2015) 73-96..
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Depertuis, Rubén R. "Translating the Bible into Pictures." In Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper; Semeia Studies 56; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) 271-89.
du Toit, Jacqueline S. "'All God's Children': Authority Figures, Places of Learning, and Society as the Other in Creationist Children's Bibles." In Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper; Semeia Studies 56; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) 31-50.
Exum, J. Cheryl. "What Does a Child Want? Reflections on Children's Bible Stories." In Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper; Semeia Studies 56; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) 333-47.
Hughes, J. A. "'Who Watches the Watchmen?': Ideology and 'Real World' Superheroes." Public Culture 39:4 (2006) 546-57.
Roncace, M. "Conflating Creation, Combining Christmas, and Ostracizing the Other." In Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper; Semeia Studies 56; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) 193-210.
Inherit the Wind, dir. Stanley Kramer (1960)
Primary Text Citation
Inherit the Wind. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. 128 min. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1960. [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
Lyon, Charlotte Haines and Clive Marsh. "Film's Role in Contemporary Meaning-making: A Theological Challenge to Cultural Studies." In Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-secular Society (ed. Stefanie Knauss and Alexander D. Orenlia; London: Transaction, 2008) 113-25.
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Duffy, Susan. "The Origin of the Speeches: Inherit the Wind, Irving Stone and the Scopes Trial." American Notes & Queries 22 (September/October 1983) 14-17.
Guterman, Gad. "Field Tripping: The Power of 'Inherit the Wind.'" Theatre Journal 60:4 (2008) 563-83.
Kozlovic, Anton Karl. "Holy Writ and Hollywood: Six Heuristic Categories of Scripture-Quoting within the Popular Cinema." Journal of Media and Religion 12 (2013) 71-85.
Taylor, Thomas T. "Tennessee v. Scopes versus Inherit the Wind: The Trial in the Play and the Film." Fides et historia 37-38:2 (2005–2006) 165-75.
Film Reviews
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"Inherit the Wind." English 13 (Summer 1960) 61.
Numbers, Ronald L. Inherit the Wind." Journal of the History of Science in Society 84 (1993) 763-4..
The Bible: In the Beginning, dir. John Huston (1966)
Primary Text Citation
The Bible: In the Beginning. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis; directed by John Huston. 174 min. Twentieth Century Fox, 1966. [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh. "Scripture as Precursor." In Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film (eds. George Aichele and Richard Walsh; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) vii-xvi.
Bach, Alice. "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars." Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
Babington, Bruce, and Peter William Evans. Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
Hall, Sheldon and Steve Neale. "Roadshows, Showcases, and Runaways, 1956–1970." In Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010).
Kozlovic, Anton Karl. "Holy Writ and Hollywood: Six Heuristic Categories of Scripture-Quoting within the Popular Cinema." Journal of Media and Religion 12 (2013) 71-85.
Ortiz, Gaye Williams. "Creation and Origins in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 341-54.
Sanders, Theresa. "In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 17-34.
Scott, Bernard Brandon. Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
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Crowther, Bosley. "The Screen: 'The Bible' According to John Huston Has Premiere: Director Plays Noah in Film at Loew's State Fry's Script is Limited to Part of Genesis." The New York Times (19 September 1966). Online, http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=
9D0DEFDC173CE43BBC4151
DFBF66838D679EDE, accessed [your access date].
"Review: 'The Bible—In the Beginning....'" Variety (31 December 1965). Online, http://variety.com/1965/film/reviews/the-bible-in-the-beginning-1200421018/, accessed [your acces date].
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood, dir. Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1994)
Primary Text Citation
Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio [Genesis: The Creation and the Flood]. Produced by Franco Bollati; directed by Ermanno Olmi. 91 min. Rai 1, Lux Vide, Lube Productions, 1994. [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh. "Scripture as Precursor." In Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film (eds. George Aichele and Richard Walsh; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) vii-xvi.
Bach, Alice. "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars." Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
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Brook, Clodagh. "Beyond Dialogue: Speech-silence, the Monologue, and Power in the Films of Ermanno Olmi." Italianist 28:2 (2008) 268-80.
Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century, trans. Jeremy Parzen. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Ortiz, Gaye Williams. "Creation and Origins in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 341-54.
Sanders, Theresa. "In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 17-34.
Young, Deborah. "On Earth as It Is in Heaven." Film Comment 37:2 (2001) 56, 6 pages.
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In the Beginning. Produced by Robert Halmi, Jr., David V. Picker and Paul Lowin; directed by Kevin Connor. 189 min. Hallmark Entertainment, 2000. [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
1.34.42 Italian subtitles, so you may want to find a streaming source
Goethals, Gregor. "Images and Values: Television as Religious Communication." In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 202-214.
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Ortiz, Gaye Williams. "Creation and Origins in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 341-54.
Sanders, Theresa. "In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 17-34.
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Fries, Laura. "In the Beginning." Daily Variety 269:50 (November 10, 2000) 19, 3/7 pages.
The Shape of Things, dir. Neil LaBute (2003)
Primary Text Citation
The Shape of Things. Prod. and dir. Neil LaBute. 2003. 96 min. Focus Features/ Mepris Films. [format you access it in]
Lyon, Charlotte Haines and Clive Marsh. "Film's Role in Contemporary Meaning-making: A Theological Challenge to Cultural Studies." In Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-secular Society (ed. Stefanie Knauss and Alexander D. Orenlia; London: Transaction, 2008) 113-25.
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Ortiz, Gaye Williams. "Creation and Origins in Film." In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016) 341-54.
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The Creation of Wartime III, Samuel Bak (1999–2008)
