Preface Acknowledgements 1. 'Hmmm . But Loved the Plagues': On Engaging with Ridley Scott's Epic and its Audiences - David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK. 2. Depicting the Divine: The Ambiguity of Exodus 3 in Exodus: Gods and Kings Matthew A. Collins - University of Chester, UK. 3. Exodus: Male Gods and Kings - J.

Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield, UK. 4. Interpreting the Entrails: Religion and Violence in Exodus: Gods and Kings Jon Morgan - University of Chester, UK. 5. 'See this Great Sight': Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings and the Evolution of Biblical Spectacle in the Cinema -- David Shepherd, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 6. Once Upon an Apocalypse: Exodus, Disaster, and a Long, Long Time Ago? Michelle Fletcher - University of Kent, UK. 7.

Picturing the Plagues and Parting the Waves: The Biblical Effect in Exodus: Gods and Kings -- Samuel Tongue, University of Glasgow, UK. 8. The Birth of a Nation: Civil Religion and Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings Catherine Wheatley - King's College London, UK. 9. Exodus: Gods and Kings and the Secular-Religious Transgression of Sacred Boundaries -- David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK.