The missing text: communicological insights into Iconographic Exegesis

Klein Cardoso, Silas (3 August 2021). The missing text: communicological insights into Iconographic Exegesis (Unpublished). In: EABS Annual Meeting / Iconography and Biblical Studies. Wuppertal. 2021.

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From its name to its practice, Iconographic Exegesis (IE) is linked to interpretative processes of two quasi-ontological and apparently well-defined, clear-cut categories: images (=Iconography) and texts (= Exegesis). Although problems of this relation are known, such as both categories blurred frontiers, the implications of this historical (as opposed to post-historical) and hence contingent pairing has not been examined critically enough within the specialized literature. This lack of reflection leaves individual subjectivities with the burden of filling in the blanks within an apparently essentialist relationship. As a result, rather traditional disciplinary frameworks and procedures continue to dictate practices, even in interpretative IE efforts that challenge long-held assumptions of conventional Biblical Studies. The paper assesses previous incursions into the relationship of text and image within Biblical Scholars to propose a tentative new framework on which both text and image categories may be brought together. To this end, “text” is viewed in terms of modern semiotics, as an information unit, within Vilém Flusser’s communicological conception of culture. On the basis of this new conceptualization, the main classes of artifacts, as well as types and genres of information (“texts”) found in ancient Palestine/Israel, will be discussed.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Institute of Old Testament Studies - Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament 01 Faculty of Theology > Other Institutions > Office of the Dean, Faculty of Theology
UniBE Contributor:	Klein Cardoso, Silas
Subjects:	200 Religion 200 Religion > 220 The Bible 900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
Funders:	[4] Swiss National Science Foundation
Projects:	[UNSPECIFIED] SNFS Sinergia Project: Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant – A multi-faceted prism for studying entangled histories in an interdisciplinary perspective (CRSII5_186426)
Language:	English
Submitter:	Silas Klein Cardoso
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2022 14:08
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:26
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173802