Noah's ark and Mrs. Monkey - Francis Landy -- - Jephthah's daughter as object of desire or feminist icon - Mikael Sjöberg -- - Latecomers: four novelists rewrite the Bible - Anthony Swindell -- - Eroticism, death, and redemption: the operatic construct of the biblical femme fatale - Peter McGrail -- - Re-visioning a biblical story through libretto and music: Debora e Jaele by Ildebrando Pizzetti - Helen Leneman -- - Oratorio as exegesis: the use of the book of Isaiah in Handel's Messiah - Andrew Davies -- - 'The bosom of Abraham' (Luke 16:22): father Abraham in the visual imagination - Martin O'Kane -- - Big sleep: strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir - Eric S. Christianson
