The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets
By: edited by Julia M. O'Brien and Chris Franke
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 517; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780567548115
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Mapping violence in the Prophets : Zephaniah 2  -- Robert D. Haak; title: Reclaiming Jeremiah's violence  -- Kathleen M. O'Connor; title: 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; title: On the pleasures of prophetic judgment : reading Micah 1:6 and 3:12 with Stokely Carmichael  -- Daniel L. Smith-Christopher; title: "Tongue-lashing" or a prophetic aesthetics of violation : an analysis of prophetic structures that reverberate beyond the biblical world  -- Yvonne Sherwood; title: Violent pictures, violent cultures? : the "aesthetics of violence" in contemporary film and in ancient prophetic texts  -- Julia M. O'Brien; title: The beauty of the bloody God : the divine warrior in prophetic literature  -- Corrine Carvalho; title: Divine violence in the Book of Amos -- Mary Mills.