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Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

By O'Brien, Julia M.

Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets Philosophy

Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

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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. 
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2010-04-01
Publication Date:
2010-06-10
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0567548112
ISBN13:
9780567548115
Weight:
470 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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