Hagar: A Reception-History 

Utilizing the hermeneutic of Reception-History, Dr. Laura Krauss reexamined sacred (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) texts and artistic interpretations of the figure of Hagar.

Publications, Lecture, and Citations

J. Cheryl Exum. Art as Biblical Commentary: Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies). T&T Clark: 2021. 12.

Nyasha Junior. Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible (Biblical Refigurations). Oxford University Press. 2019.

Laura Krauss Greig. “Agar: un campionario. Conversazioni tra artisti e Genesi 16 e 21”. Figlie di Agar: alle origini del monoteismo due madri, editor Letizia Tomassone, Cantalupa, Italy: Effatà, 2014. 129 – 162. (GTU library https://grace.gtu.edu/record=b1515832).

Laura Greig Krauss. ‘An experimental Introduction to the Hermeneutic of Reception-History’. Protestantesimo. vol 68/2013: 155 -160.

Laura Greig Krauss. Hagar: a feminist reception-history sampler of global art from the eighth to the twenty-first century. Dissertation/Thesis. 2010.

Laura Krauss. Rembrandt’s “Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael”, 1640: the influence of Amsterdam’s interfaith community on Rembrandt’s innovative iconography. Lecture delivered on July 25, 2012, at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Amsterdam.

Laura Greig Krauss. ‘Restoring Hagar: Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London’. Biblical Reception 1 (2012): 65 - 87.

Rembrandt Van Rijn (workshop of). Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, 1640. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (contributed to the reattribution of subject matter to Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, 2012).https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O81365/abraham-dismissing-hagar-and-ishmael-oil-painting-rembrandt-van-rijn/.