Full Description
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.
Contents
Cynthia Chapman, Oberlin College
"The Aesthetics of Empire: The Depiction and Bracketing of Violence in the
Assyrian Palace Reliefs"
Daniel Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
"Micah 1-2: On The Pleasures of Prophetic Judgment"
Corrine Carvalho, University of Saint Thomas
"The Beauty of the Bloody God: The Divine Warrior in Prophetic Literature"
Julia M. O'Brien, Lancaster Theological Seminary
"Violent Pictures, Violent Cultures? The 'Aesthetics of Violence' in Contemporary Film and in Ancient Prophetic Texts "
Robert D. Haak, Augustana College
"Mapping Violence in the Prophets"
Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University, UK
"Divine Violence in the Book of Amos"
Carolyn Sharp, Yale Divinity School
"Hewn By the Prophet: An Analysis of Violence and Sexual Transgression in Hosea With Reference to the Homiletical Aesthetic of Jeremiah Wright"
Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow
"'Tongue-Lashing' or a Prophetic Aesthetics of Violation: An Analysis of Prophetic Structures that Reverberate Beyond the Biblical World"
Chris Franke, title TBA
