Amanda Dillon
Dr
Dr Amanda Dillon’s research specialisation is Biblical Reception History with a particular focus on the New Testament and Visual Culture. Amanda is currently leading an IRC-funded research project, NISAR, looking at women readers of scriptures and their visual expressions of their interpretations of sacred texts. Her research interests include: Biblical Reception, Visual Exegesis, Multimodal Analysis, Hermeneutics, Theology and the Visual Arts. Female characters in the New Testament and their afterlives are another significant dimension of her current research and teaching. Amanda's first monograph, Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design was published by the Society of Biblical Literature Press (Atlanta, GA) in 2021.
She has published on the reception of the Bible in: 21st century lectionaries; contemporary Graphic Design; the art of Marc Chagall; Manga Bibles; Urban and Street Art.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | (2021) Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design. [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dillon, A. (2023) '“I Am the Nail”: A Multimodal Analysis of a Contemporary Reception of Isaiah 53'. Religions, 14 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | (2021) 'Introduction'. POSTSCRIPTS: Special Issue: Sacred Texts and Digital Culture, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | (2021) 'Mapping the (Digital) Terrain Biblical Texts in Digital Contexts'. POSTSCRIPTS: Special Issue: Sacred Texts and Digital Culture, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Amanda Dillon (2021) 'Bible Journaling as a Spiritual Aid in Addiction Recovery'. Religions, . [DOI] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'The Reception of King David in the Art of Marc Chagall'. PIBA (Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association) 40 (2017), . | |
| 2013 | (2013) 'Manga Bibles and their Treatment of the Female Characters in the Book of Judges'. Biblical Reception (2012), . |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | (2024) 'Ever Ancient, Ever new: The Emerging Field of Biblical Reception' In: Critical Questions in Contemporary Theology: Essays in Honour of Dermot A. Lane. Oxford : Peter Lang. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) 'Be Your Own Scribe: Bible Journalling and the New Illuminators of the Densely-Printed Page' In: From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'The Book of Kells and the Visual Identity of Ireland' In: Ireland and the Reception of the Bible: Social and Cultural Perspectives. [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'Streetwise About the Bible: Unexpected Allusions (to the Text) in Unusual Places' In: Rethinking Biblical Literacy. [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'The Rapture of Art and the Art of Rapture: Ernest Pignon-Ernest's Installation Exstases and the Evocation of Ecstasy' In: MYSTICISM IN THE FRENCH TRADITION: ERUPTIONS FROM FRANCE. [Link] |
Web Page
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | (2019) Banished Vashti. WEBP [Link] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Amanda Dillon (2025) Zanne Domoney-Lyttle: 'The Bible and Comics'; Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm, eds.: 'Comics and Sacred Texts'. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1558/post.31933 | |
| 2023 | (2023) The Bible and Women: From Text to Image, edited by Guadalupe Seijas, translated by Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1558/post.27053 |
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Professional Associations
Research Interests
Amanda’s research is centred around the reception of the Bible and other sacred texts in the contemporary period. Women readers of Scriptures and their reception of these texts, most especially as these interpretations are expressed visually in art and design and other artefacts of material culture, are the focus of her research.
The Bible in contemporary art and design, as well as female characters in the Bible and their afterlives are another dimension of her research and teaching.