| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Scope and Terminology -- Gendered Pronouns -- Part I An Embodied Paradigm -- 1 The Buried Body -- Word and Body: A Parable (1 Kings 13) -- Modern Biblical Scholarship -- Yes to Words. And Also the Body -- Historicizing a Word-Centered Approach -- 2 Re-Embodying Biblical Prophecy -- A Working Definition -- From Unity to Diversity: Deuteronomy 18:9-22 -- Prophecy as Mediation: Key Terms and Concepts -- "A Paradigm of Embodiment" |
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Constrained and Shaped By Text: A Challenge, A Caveat, and an Assumption -- Conclusion -- Part II Called in the Flesh -- 3 God's Surrogate (Exodus 3-4) -- Embodied Encounter Sets the Stage for Embodied Mediation -- Moses' Hand as Surrogate of the Divine Hand -- Heavy of Mouth: A Prophet With Disability -- Words and Actions -- Conclusion -- 4 First-Person -- First-Person Narration, Textual Mediation, and Embodied Reception -- Isaiah 6 -- Jeremiah 1:4-10 -- Ezekiel 1:1-3:15 -- Conclusion -- Part III Transformations -- 5 Becoming Other -- Moses, Godlike and Monstrous (Exodus 34) |
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Miriam, Debased and Devoured (Numbers 12) -- Conclusion -- 6 Transformative Practice -- Textual Portrayals of Religious Experience and Bodily Practice -- Askêsis -- Incubation -- Conclusion -- 7 Ecstasy -- Anxious About Ecstasy: A Century of Debate, 1914-2017 -- A Multidisciplinary Approach -- Induction Techniques -- Spirit Possession -- Conclusion -- Part IV (E)Motion and Affect -- 8 Mobility and Immobility -- Mobilities: Catalyzing Dynamism in Relation to Deity, People, and Place -- Supernatural Transport -- Immobilities -- The Costs of Mobility and Immobility -- Conclusion -- 9 Anger and Tears |
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Understanding Affect: New Approaches and Relevance for Studying Prophetic Literature -- Jonah: Transforming Affect -- Jeremiah -- Conclusion -- 10 Devastation and Wonder -- Ezekiel: Devastated and Devastating -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources |
| Summary |
"Biblical prophecy involves more than words: it is always also embodied. After assessing the implications and origins of a logocentric model of biblical prophecy, the book proposes an alternative, embodied paradigm of analysis that draws insights from disciplines ranging from cognitive neuroscience to anthropology. The body's vital and necessary role in prophetic mediation emerges through analysis of portrayals of prophets' embodied religious experience and practice in diverse texts from the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. Prophetic call narratives reveal a correspondence between embodied encounter with God and embodied mission to God's people and a programmatic synergy of word and body. First-person narratives facilitate audience transport in ways that extend the embodiment of prophetic mediation through text to audience. Visible transformations of the prophetic body mark it as other, even monstrous, reflecting a liminal position between heaven and earth, life and death. Ascetic practice and religious ecstasy make the prophet's body a mediating bridge. They also hold power to shape social realities. Prophetic mobility similarly links God and people across time and space. A different kind of movement, affect and emotion, likewise proves central to prophetic mediation. The prophetic body becomes a locus of interembodiment and node of circulating affect between God, people, and place. The body of the prophet is not accidental but rather vital and necessary to the prophet's mediating role. The prophet's embodied religious experience, transformations, mobility, and affect are both means (how mediation occurs) and objects (part of what is mediated) of prophetic mediation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Subject |
Prophecy -- Biblical teaching
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023056768 |
| ISBN |
9780197604984 |
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0197604986 |
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