Abstract The rise in popularity of comic book Bibles has brought with it the opportunity to interrogate, challenge, reframe and reimagine difficult aspects of sacred scripture through text–image retellings. By their nature and format, comic books are uncontrollable vehicles of cultural expression, and in the case of biblical comic books, religious expression. As such, they can offer retellings of biblical narratives which challenge established practices of biblical interpretation normally rooted in patriarchal and conservative ideologies and may open the text up to more creative interpretations which are not restrained by those traditional approaches of reading the Bible. This article considers R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis, Illustrated by R. Crumb (2009) as a case study which focuses on the character of Rebekah (Gen. 24:15–67 and 25:19–28), demonstrating how the combination of text and image acts as a commentary to the biblical narrative as well as reframing Rebekah as a matriarchal leader, a move which is not reflected in the words but is depicted through accompanying images. The case study demonstrates how biblical comic books can move beyond the constraints of traditional biblical scholarship to reinterpret characters and stories from perspectives previously unvisited.

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座谈会之外的思考：改写R. Crumb的《创世纪》中的丽贝卡

摘要漫画《圣经》的普及为它带来了机会，可以通过文字-图像复述来质疑，挑战，重新构想和重新构想神圣的经文的困难方面。就其性质和格式而言，漫画书是不可控制的文化表达工具，而对于圣经漫画书而言，它们是宗教表达。这样，他们可以提供圣经叙事的重述，这些挑战对通常植根于父权制和保守派意识形态的既定的圣经解释做法构成挑战，并可能使文本接受更具创造性的解释，而不受传统阅读圣经方法的束缚。本文将R.Crumb的《创世纪之书》（R.Crumb插图，2009年）作为案例研究，重点研究丽贝卡的性格（创世记24：15-67和25：19-28），演示文本和图像的组合如何充当圣经叙事的注释，以及如何将利百加重新定义为母系领袖，这一举动并未体现在文字中，而是通过随附的图像进行了描绘。案例研究表明，圣经漫画书如何超越传统圣经学术的局限，从以前未曾见过的角度重新解释人物和故事。