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Zusatztext '[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 Informationen zum Autor 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 Zusammenfassung 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. This volume collects those essays. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
