Thinking Outside the Panel: Rewriting Rebekah in R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis

The rise in popularity of comic book Bibles has brought with it the opportunity to interrogate, challenge, reframe and reimagine difficult aspects of sacred scripture through text-image retellings. By their nature and format, comic books are uncontrollable vehicles of cultural expression, and in the...

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Main Author: Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2020
In: Open theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 557-571
Further subjects:B Rebekah
B visual criticism
B Genesis
B Comic Books
B Reception History
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