Format:
xvii, 199 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780567671462
Series Statement:
Library of Hebrew Bible
Content:
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. -- See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/violence-otherness-and-identity-in-isaiah-631-6-9780567671462/#sthash.tmr1tY0l.dpuf
Content:
"Trito-Isaiah" and the Text -- Social Identity Approach and Proximate "Other" -- Coming From Edom : Ambivalent Depictions -- The Trampling One : Descriptions of Marginality -- Otherness, the Ultimate and the Proximate : Correlated and Revived Identities -- Retrospect and Prospect
Note:
Dissertation Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780567671479
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Irudayaraj, Dominic S. Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63 London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017 ISBN 9780567671479
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Irudayaraj, Dominic S. Violence, otherness and identity in Isaiah 63:1-6 [London] : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017 ISBN 9780567671486
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780567671479
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bibel 63,1-6 Jesaja
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Gewalt
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Hochschulschrift
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