Table of Contents

I
Introduction: Formative Visuality
1: A Disciplinary Blind-Spot and its Origins
2: Various Visuals: Visual Culture, Visual Practice, Visual Piety
II
Introduction: Hellenistic, Jewish or Both?: Hellenistic, Jewish or Both?
3: Greco-Roman Visual Practices:Greco-Roman Visual Practices
4: Jewish Visual Practices: Jewish Visual Practices
III
Introduction: Luther s Faith and Paul s Sight: Romans 1:17 and 2 Corinthians 3:18
5: The Epistle to the Romans
6: Sense Perception and Transformative Judgement: 2 Corinthians 2:14-7:4
7: Beholding in a Mirror we are being Metamorphosed : 2 Corinthians 3:18
8: Metamorphosis of the Servant s Beholder
9: From Jew to Gentile in Paul s Visual Piety
Finis: Synagoga et Ecclesia

About the Author

J. M. F. Heath is Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Durham.

Reviews

The book offers many rewards for the careful reading and re-reading it demands. From wide-ranging early chapters, where Heath makes a compelling case for ancient visual piety and its virtual eclipse in post-Reformation exegesis of Paul, to close readings of certain passages in Romans 1-4 and 2 Corinthians 2-7, we are asked to look through both a telescope (the wide theoretical and historical view) and a microscope (the focus on a few key texts)
*Alexandra R. Brown, The Expository Times*