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The aesthetics of violence in the Prophets / edited by Julia M. O'Brien and Chris Franke.

Contributor(s): O'Brien, Julia M | Franke, Chris
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 517.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: New York, N.Y. : T & T Clark, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567548115 (alk. paper); 0567548112 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Violence in the BibleBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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