Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5873869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhonda |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnette-Bletsch |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETTE-BLETSCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Biblical Studies, Eastern University, St Davids, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Bible, Disability, and The Chosen
Biblical healing stories, especially when subjected to ableist interpretations, can fuel discriminatory attitudes toward people with disabilities. The Chosen series has opted to address issues of disability directly, not only by adapting healing stories from the Gospels, but also by creating storylines to depict other people with disabilities, including two of the twelve disciples. This article uses film criticism and disability studies to examin…
Major Review
‘Tis Pity She’s (Still) a Whore
Early Jesus films reveled in the traditional, historically inaccurate interpretation of Mary Magdalene as a penitent prostitute. While films produced since the 1980s are less heavy-handed in explicitly sexualizing or shaming Mary, promiscuity remains her most persistent trait. Traces of the penitent prostitute are detectable in The Chosen , a crowd-funded evangelical series on the life of Jesus which foregrounds Mary as a disciple. Her story arc …
The Bible in Motion
This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the…
Bible in Motion
God at the Movies
Law and Liminality in the Bible
God's People in God's Land
Taboo or Not Taboo
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Taboo or Not Taboo
Law and Liminality in the Bible
God's People in God's Land
The Bible in Motion
This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the…
Bible in Motion
God at the Movies
Major Review
‘Tis Pity She’s (Still) a Whore
Early Jesus films reveled in the traditional, historically inaccurate interpretation of Mary Magdalene as a penitent prostitute. While films produced since the 1980s are less heavy-handed in explicitly sexualizing or shaming Mary, promiscuity remains her most persistent trait. Traces of the penitent prostitute are detectable in The Chosen , a crowd-funded evangelical series on the life of Jesus which foregrounds Mary as a disciple. Her story arc …
The Bible, Disability, and The Chosen
Biblical healing stories, especially when subjected to ableist interpretations, can fuel discriminatory attitudes toward people with disabilities. The Chosen series has opted to address issues of disability directly, not only by adapting healing stories from the Gospels, but also by creating storylines to depict other people with disabilities, including two of the twelve disciples. This article uses film criticism and disability studies to examin…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)