TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Julia M. AU - Franke,Chris TI - The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets T2 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies SN - 9780567548115 AV - BS1505 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - T and T Clark KW - Bible KW - Prophets KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Violence in the Bible N1 - 1 and indexes; 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; 2 N2 - 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 ER -