Terror All Around: Horror, Monsters, and Theology in the Book of Jeremiah (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 390) - Hardcover

Kalmanofsky, Amy

 
9780567026569: Terror All Around: Horror, Monsters, and Theology in the Book of Jeremiah (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 390)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0567026566 ISBN 13: 9780567026569
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Among the many strategies of persuasive speech, biblical prophets often employ a rhetoric of horror. Prophets use verbal threats and graphic images of destruction to terrify their audience. Contemporary horror theory provides insight into the rhetoric of horror employed by the prophets. In this book, Amy Kalmanofsky applies horror theory to the book of Jeremiah and considers the nature of biblical horror and the objects that provoke horror, as well as the ways texts like Jeremiah work to elicit horror from their audience. Kalmanofsky begins by analyzing the emotional response of horror as reflected in characters' reactions to terrifying entities in the book of Jeremiah. Horror, she concludes, is a composite emotion consisting of fear in response to a threatening entity and a corresponding response of shame either directed toward one's self or felt on behalf of another. Having considered the nature of horror, she turns to the objects that elicit horror and consider their ontological qualities and the nature of the threat they pose. There are two central monstrous figures in the book of Jeremiah-aggressor God and defeated Israel. Both of these monsters refuse to be integrated into and threaten to disintegrate the expected order of the universe. She then presents a close, rhetorical reading of Jeremiah 6 and consider the way this text works to horrify its audience. The book concludes by considering fear's place within religious experience and the theological implications of a rhetoric that portrays God and Israel as monsters.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Amy Kalmanofsky is Assistant Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0567026566
ISBN 13 
9780567026569
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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