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The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets / edited by Julia M. O'Brien and Chris Franke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 517.
- T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
- T & T Clark library of biblical studies
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; v. 517
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence in the Bible.
- Bible. Prophets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : T&T Clark, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme The Aesthetics of Violence. Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric. The results were rich-- engaging discussion of violent images in ancient Near Eastern art and in modern film, as well as advancing our understanding of the poetic skill required for invoking terror through words. This volume collects those essays as well as others especially commissioned for its creation. As a
- Contents:
- Sculpted warriors : sexuality and the sacred in the depiction of warfare in the Assyrian palace reliefs and in Ezekiel 23:14-17 / Cynthia R. Chapman
- Mapping violence in the Prophets : Zephaniah 2 / Robert D. Haak
- Reclaiming Jeremiah's violence / Kathleen M. O'Connor
- Hewn by the prophet : an analysis of violence and sexual transgression in Hosea with reference to the homiletical aesthetic of Jeremiah Wright / Carolyn J. Sharp
- On the pleasures of prophetic judgment : reading Micah 1:6 and 3:12 with Stokely Carmichael / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
- "Tongue-lashing" or a prophetic aesthetics of violation : an analysis of prophetic structures that reverberate beyond the biblical world / Yvonne Sherwood
- Violent pictures, violent cultures? : the "aesthetics of violence" in contemporary film and in ancient prophetic texts / Julia M. O'Brien
- The beauty of the bloody God : the divine warrior in prophetic literature / Corrine Carvalho
- Divine violence in the Book of Amos / Mary Mills.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612947827
- 9781282947825
- 1282947826
- 9780567571427
- 0567571424
- OCLC:
- 694361465
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