Supporting the theory that there is no singular ‘Bible’, and the idea that biblical literacy is demonstrated in a multitude of ways beyond confessional interpretations of biblical texts, the contributors of this volume explore how multiple ‘Bibles’ coexist simultaneously in popular cultures. By interrogating popular television, music, and film, biblical retellings are identified which variously perpetuate, challenge or subvert biblical narratives and motifs.
The topics discussed are gathered around three themes: depictions of sex and gender, troubling representations, and subversions of biblical authority. This volume offers new studies on retellings of biblical texts which seek to interrogate, perpetuate and challenge dominant cultural ideas of who can interpret biblical texts, what forms this might take, and the influence of biblical interpretations in our societies.
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction - Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, University of Glasgow, UK and Rebekah Welton, University of Exeter, UK 2. Serpentine Saviours and Woke Women: When the Satanic Witch Met Eve in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Holly Morse, University of Manchester, UK 3. Buffy the Philistine Slayer: Echoes of Samson in the Buffyverse - Sarah Nicholson, University of Glasgow, UK 4. “I can’t be physical with you” – Reimagining John 20:17 through Fleabag - Siobhan Jolley, University of Manchester, UK 5. Anti-Judaism in English History and the Strange Moment when Dr Who Appeared to Propagate Biblical Supersessionism - David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK 6. Reception of the Bible in My Little Pony and Christian Apocrypha - Tom de Bruin, Newbold College, UK 7. Hip-Hop, Allegory and Exodus: A Study on Mosaic Masculinity and Liberative Performance in C-Murder’s “Lord Help Us” - Eleanor Hayes, University of Glasgow, UK 8. Subverting Scriptural “Authority” in Punk Music - Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, University of Glasgow, UK 9. The Return of the Goddess in Supernatural: God, the Darkness and Genesis 1:1-2 - Rebekah Welton, University of Exeter, UK 10. Subversive Screenings: Rethinking Genesis 22 in Popular Visual Media - Matthew Collins, University of Chester, UK 11. The “Good” Book? Protestant Theology without the Bible in Good Omens and The Good Place - Laura Carlson Hasler, Indiana University, USA 12. Response to previous chapters - Hugh S. Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK Bibliography Index
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle is a biblical scholar affiliated with the University of Glasgow, UK. Rebekah Welton is a lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK.
