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Fractured families and rebel maidservants : the Biblical Hagar in seventeenth-century Dutch art and literature

Title
Fractured families and rebel maidservants : the Biblical Hagar in seventeenth-century Dutch art and literature / Christine Petra Sellin.
Author
Sellin, Christine Petra, 1961-
Publication
New York : Continuum, c2006.

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Description
xviii, 189 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
Subject
  • Hagar (Biblical figure) > Art
  • Hagar (Biblical figure) > In literature
  • Ishmael (Biblical figure) > Art
  • Ishmael (Biblical figure) > In literature
  • Arts, Dutch > 17th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-178) and index.
Contents
Chapter one. The story of Hagar and Ishmael in traditional Christian literature: ancient, patristic, medieval, and sixteenth-century interpretations -- Chapter two. Of households and thresholds: seventeenth-century Dutch Christian literature and the story of Hagar -- Chapter three. Paintings of Sarah presenting Hagar to Abraham as wife (Gen. 16:2-4) -- Chapter four. The runaway Hagar encounters the angel (Gen. 16:6-14) -- Chapter five. Paintings of the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael (Gen. 21:14) -- Chapter six. Saving Hagar and Ishmael: the wilderness-rescue (Gen. 21:15-19) -- Summary and conclusion. -- Appendix.
Call Number
JQD 06-590
ISBN
  • 0567028917 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0567029018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005025252
  • 9780567029010
OCLC
61463608
Author
Sellin, Christine Petra, 1961-
Title
Fractured families and rebel maidservants : the Biblical Hagar in seventeenth-century Dutch art and literature / Christine Petra Sellin.
Imprint
New York : Continuum, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-178) and index.
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9780567029010
Research Call Number
JQD 06-590
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