The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Brien, Julia M., Franke, Chris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : T & T Clark, [2010]
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 517.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Table of 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.