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Concerning Dust and Ashes : Affects of Horror in the Hebrew Bible.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grafius, Brandon R.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- In Concerning Dust and Ashes, Brandon R. Grafius explores how the Bible uses horror to introduce ideas that our rational minds would reject, allowing us to explore our relationship to the cosmos, the unfriendly spaces of the world, and the nature of the divine.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Encountering the Divine
- Concerning Dust and Ashes
- The Shadow of the Monster in Scholarship
- The Monster in Biblical Scholarship
- Horror and Affect
- Different Affects for Different Readers
- Reader Identification within Horror Texts
- Fear response and Revelation
- Note on Methodology
- Beyond the Monster
- 1 The Wonder and the Terror of the Divine
- Frameworks for Divine Encounters
- The Sublime
- Otto and the Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
- Responding to the Sublime
- Wonder in the Hebrew Bible
- Wonder or Fear
- Tapping on the Rim of the Known Universe
- Different Types of Horror
- Voyaging Far
- 2 The World Without Us
- Imagining the Destruction of Enemies
- Deuteronomy and the Unthinkability of Disobedience
- Prophetic Destruction and Restoration
- Moving Toward the World Without Us
- 3 The Terror of Absence and Indifference
- Resolutions of Lament in the Psalms
- A Prayer with No Response
- The Transcendent Terror of Psalm 88
- Terror in the Laments of Jeremiah
- Resolving God's Hiddenness in Third Isaiah
- Unthinkable Absence
- 4 Liminal and Dangerous Spaces
- The World Created for Us
- Space and Dominion in Job's Theophany
- YHWH Spoils for a Fight
- The Divine Speeches and the Loss of Dominion
- Humanity and the Vast Sea of Ignorance
- 5 The Great and Terrible God Behind the Curtain
- God as Terrorizing Husband
- Shifting Perspectives in Horror and Prophetic Marriage Texts
- Perspective and Audience Identification in Horror
- The Horror of Prophetic Marriage
- Identifying with the Horror
- 6 The Wisdom of Horror
- Reconsidering Dust and Ashes
- The Purposes of Horror
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Biblical References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-764176-8
- OCLC:
- 1582164669
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