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Martin O'Kane

Centre Director and Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies

Selected Publications

Imaging the Bible: An Introduction to Biblical Art, ed. (London: SPCK, 2008).

The Biblical Elijah and his Visual Afterlives’, in  J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu (eds.), The Bible and Art (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007).

‘Elijah in the Carmelite Visual Tradition’, in Misha Caspi (ed.), The Prophet Elijah in the Three Monotheistic Traditions (2007).

Contemporary Approaches to the Hebrew Bible’, in Patricia Kieran (ed.), Conversing with Catholicism (Dublin: Veritas, 2007).

Painting the Text: The Bible and the Visual Imagination (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007).

‘The Artist as Reader of the Bible’, Biblical Interpretation, 13.4 (2006), pp. 337–373.

‘Concealment and Disclosure: Metaphor in Isaiah 28–32’, Revue Biblique (2006).
‘Isaiah 53: Picturing ‘The Man of Sorrows’, Religion and The Arts 9.2 (2005) pp. 62–101.

‘The Flight into Egypt’, in Martin O’Kane (ed.), Borders, Boundaries and the Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 313, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press/Continuum), 2002, pp. 15–60.

‘Genesis 27: Isaac Blessing Jacob. Literary and Artistic Interpretations’, Scripture Bulletin, 30 (2001), pp. 3–24.

‘King David’, in J. Cheryl Exum (ed.) Beyond the Biblical Horizon, Leiden: Brill, 1999.

 ‘The Biblical King David and his Literary and Artistic Afterlives,' Biblical Interpretation 6 (1998), pp. 314–347.

‘Isaiah: A Prophet in the Footsteps of Moses', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 69 (1996), pp. 29–51.

‘Understanding David: Reflections on King David, a novel by Allan Massie as an Interpretation of the Biblical Story of David’, Scripture Bulletin, XXV1 (1996), pp. 59–73.

Forthcoming

Bible, Art, Gallery ed.(British Academy book) (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009).

The Reception History of 1–2 Kings: A Commentary (Oxford: Blackwells, 2009).

Biblical Art from Wales (co-edited with J. Morgan-Guy), (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009).

‘Visual images of the Book of Ruth’, Interpretation, 2009.

‘Visual Exegesis and Redaktiongeschichte’, JSNT volume on Reception History (2009).


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