The journal Ad Fontes published my book review of Heidi J. Hornik, Ian Boxall, and Bobbi Dykema, eds., The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives BibRec 3 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021). Here’s an excerpt:

[T]his volume has five excellent chapters that fit the stated purpose of the editors in the introduction and five chapters that I judge to be irrelevant for this volume and/or severely flawed in method. The excellent chapters provoke readers of biblical texts to consider how they themselves engage in visualization; how another’s visualization can highlight new perspectives and obscure others; what genres lend themselves to visualization; what genres are most transformed, for good or ill, by visualization; and how visualization can aid or hinder a teacher’s exposition of the Bible. The more flawed chapters will not give readers of this volume any help for treating visual depictions as instances of “visual exegesis”—probably because of a misunderstanding of this ambiguous term—but they are well documented and interesting studies.

Because of word count, I had to cut a bit from the critiques in the second half. But I’d be willing to discuss those further if anyone has a question about the chapters that were reviewed less favorably.