1. Introduction
2. Hebrew Bible epics
3. Reimagining the Hebrew Bible
4. Jesus films
5. Reimagining Jesus figures
6. Bible in film
7. Film as Bible
8. The future of Bible and film
Glossary
Biography
Matthew S. Rindge is Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University, USA. For six years he chaired the Bible and Film section in the Society of Biblical Literature.
Rindge’s primer on biblical film initiates his readers into both biblical film and biblical film scholarship. Amazingly, along the way, Rindge also finds time to introduce readers to many of biblical scholarship’s tropes (e.g., the messianic secret, the son of man, the move from the Proclaimer to the proclaimed, and the historical Jesus). The last three chapters alone are worth the book’s price as they provide a hermeneutic by which readers can create their own new conversations with the manifold ways that bible and film interact (Bible in Film, Film as Bible, and Bible and Film/TV). Although a primer, Rindge's book, particularly its penultimate chapter, suggests exciting new scholarly possibilities.
Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA.
