{"product_id":"dominic-irudayaraj-s-violence-otherness-and-identity-in-isaiah-63-9780567671462","title":"Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63","description":"Violence disturbs. And violent depictions, when encountered in the biblical texts, are all the more disconcerting. Isaiah 63:1-6 is an illustrative instance. The prophetic text presents the \"Arriving One\" in gory details ('trampling down people'; 'pouring out their lifeblood' v.6). Further, the introductory note that the Arriving One is \"coming from Edom\" (cf. v.1) may suggest Israel's unrelenting animosity towards Edom. These two themes: the \"gory depiction\" and \"coming from Edom\" are addressed in this book. Irudayaraj uses a social identity reading to show how Edom is consistently pictured as Israel's proximate and yet 'other'-ed entity. Approaching Edom as such thus helps situate the animosity within a larger prophetic vision of identity construction in the postexilic Third Isaian context. By adopting an iconographic reading of Isaiah 63:1-6, Irudayaraj shows how the prophetic portrayal of the 'Arriving One' in descriptions where it is clear that the 'Arriving One' is a marginalised identity correlates with the experiences of the \"stooped\" exiles (cf 51:14). He also demonstrates that the text leaves behind emphatic affirmations ('mighty' and 'splendidly robed' cf. v.1; \"alone\" cf. v.3), by which the relegated voice of the divine reasserts itself. It is in this divine reassertion that the hope of the Isaian community's reclamation of its own identity rests.","brand":"Bloomsbury 3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53715397149014,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780567671462_1_639660c2-6168-4207-869a-c13f5610b4fb.jpg?v=1781767268","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dominic-irudayaraj-s-violence-otherness-and-identity-in-isaiah-63-9780567671462","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}