on the spectacle and reception of Exodus: gods and kings /
guest edited by David Tollerton.
London :
Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2017.
vi, 171 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
Biblical reception ;
4 (2016)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
'Hmmm ... But loved the plagues': On engaging with Ridley Scott's epic and its audiences / David Tollerton -- Depicting the divine: the ambiguity of Exodus 3 in Exodus: Gods and Kings / Matthew A. Collins -- Exodus: male gods and kings / J. Cheryl Exum -- Interpreting the entrails : religion and violence in Exodus: Gods and Kings / Jon Morgan -- 'See this great sight': Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings and the evolution of biblical spectacle in the cinema / David shepherd -- Once upon an apocalypse: Exodus, disaster, and a long, long time ago? / Michelle Fletcher -- Picturing the plagues and parting the waves: the biblical effect in Exodus: Gods and Kings / Samuel Tongue -- The birth of a nation: civil religion and Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings / Catherine Wheatley -- Exodus: Gods and Kings and the secular-religious transgression of sacred boundaries / David Tollerton