At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme "The Aesthetics of Violence." Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric. The results were rich-- engaging discussion of violent images in ancient Near Eastern art and in modern film, as well as advancing our understanding of the poetic skill required for invoking terror through words.
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 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.
At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme "The Aesthetics of Violence." Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric. The results were rich-- engaging discussion of violent images in ancient Near Eastern art and in modern film, as well as advancing our understanding of the poetic skill required for invoking terror through words.
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 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.
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
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 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?
Julia M. O'Brien is Professor of Old Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary Chris Franke is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the College of St. Katherine in St. Paul, Minnesota
‘Originating from a 2006 session at the Society of Biblical
Literature, this excellent and timely volume explores the complex
synergy among violence, rhetoric, aesthetics and audience impact in
the prophets and their contemporary analogues.'
*Religious Studies Review*
Overall, this collection of essays is a wonderful contribution to
the study of violence in biblical texts... The personal nature of
the essays creates a connection between the author and reader that
enhances the reader's experience. I highly recommend this book
because it will do much for how people teach, preach, and read all
of the violent texts in the Bible.
*Reviews in Religion & Theology*
‘[The book] takes violent rhetoric seriously as a powerful datum of
the Bible that is substantive and intentional and not as simply an
embarrassing side issue...[It] is an invitation to think again
about violence in the Bible—not to dismiss it as objectionable and
unacceptable, but to recognize it as an inescapable vehicle for
saying what must be said in a society narcotized by denial and
despair.' —Christian Century
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