This volume explores multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric, providing a rich and engaging discussion of violent images not only in prophetic texts and in ancient Near Eastern art but also in modern film and receptions of prophetic texts.
The volume addresses questions that are at once ancient and distressingly-modern: What do violent images do to us? Do they encourage violent behavior and/or provide an alternative to actual violence? How do depictions of violence define boundaries between and within communities? What readers can and should readers make of the disturbing rhetoric of violent prophets?
Contributors include Corrine Carvahlo, Cynthia Chapman, Chris Franke, Bob Haak, Mary Mills, Julia O'Brien, Kathleen O'Connor, Carolyn Sharp, Yvonne Sherwood, and Daniel Smith-Christopher.
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152
The
Aesthetics
of
Violence
in
the
Prophets
1
fantasy
world.
I
can
no
more
imagine
a
reign
of
God
not
won
by
victory
than
I
can
a
heaven
without
sex.
We
can’t
get
rid
of
sex
or
violence
and
remain
human,
and
we
can’t
remain
human
without
misusing
them.
We
remain
on
this
side
of
reality
where
the
grotesque
is
beautiful.
75
75.
Boersma
(
Violence,
Hospitality,
and
the
Cross
,
257)
talks
of
being
on
“this
side
of
the
eschaton.”
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Sculpted Warriors: Sexuality and the Sacred in the Depiction of Warfare in the Assyrian Palace Reliefs and in Ezekiel 23:14–17
- Mapping Violence in the Prophets: Zephaniah 2
- Reclaiming Jeremiah’s Violence
- Hewn By the Prophet: An Analysis of Violence And Sexual Transgression in Hosea With Reference to the Homiletical Aesthetic of Jeremiah Wright
- On the Pleasures of Prophetic Judgment: Reading Micah 1:6 and 3:12 With Stokely Carmichael
- “Tongue-Lashing” Or a Prophetic Aesthetics of Violation: An Analysis of Prophetic Structures That Reverberate Beyond the Biblical World
- Violent pictures, violent cultures? The “aesthetics of violence” in contemporary film and in ancient prophetic texts
- The Beauty of The Bloody God: The Divine Warrior in Prophetic Literature
- Divine Violence in the Book of Amos
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
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