Learning from the Good Shepherd in Multimodal Texts
Picture Book Retellings of Psalm 23 and Jesus’ Parable of the Lost Sheep
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21379789 |
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| Authors | Danielle Terceiro (0000-0002-0370-8376, Alphacrucis University College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-189 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4087 • E-ISSN: 1547-3201 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00344087.2025.2450580 |
| OpenAlex | W4406960943 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Retellings of biblical stories for children encode a story for their young audiences to live by. This article undertakes a textual analysis of picture book retellings of Psalm 23 and the Parable of the Lost Sheep. These books blend everyday schemas and scripts to make meaning for their young readers. Readers are invited to project the original biblical pretexts onto their own everyday experience in varied ways. These picture books encode different ideas about a child’s own agency in their spiritual flourishing, and different ideas about the role of adults as good shepherds of the children in their care
Art · Literature · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
| Highly cited | No |
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