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The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets / edited by Julia M. O'Brien and Chris Franke. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 517. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: New York : T and T Clark, (c)2010.Description: xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567548115
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1505
  • BS1505.F829.A378 2010
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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.
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.
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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.

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.

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