The Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

by O'Brien, Julia M.; Franke, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780567548115
• ISBN10: 0567548112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

This volume collects those essays as well as others especially commissioned for its creation. As a collection, they address questions that are at once ancient and distressingly-modern: What do violent images do to us? Do they encour

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
Sculpted Warriors: Sexuality and the Sacred in the Depiction of Warfare in the Assyrian Palace Reliefs and in Ezekiel 23:14-17	p. 1
Mapping Violence in the Prophets: Zephaniah 2	p. 18
Reclaiming Jeremiah's Violence	p. 37
Hewn by the Prophet: An Analysis of Violence and Sexual Transgression in Hosea With Reference to the Homiletical Aesthetic of Jeremiah Wright	p. 50
On the Pleasures of Prophetic Judgment: Reading Micah 1:6 and 3:12 With Stokely Carmichael	p. 72
"Tongue-Lashing" or a Prophetic Aesthetics of Violation: An Analysis of Prophetic Structures that Reverberate Beyond the Biblical World	p. 88
Violent Pictures, Violent Cultures? The "Aesthetics of Violence" in Contemporary Film and in Ancient Prophetic Texts	p. 112
The Beauty of the Bloody God: The Divine Warrior in Prophetic Literature	p. 131
Divine Violence in the Book of Amos	p. 153
Index of References	p. 180
Index of Authors	p. 184
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