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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460108203321

Titolo

Feminist companion to the latter prophets / / edited by Athalya Brenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-567-38346-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Feminist companion to the Bible ; ; 8

Disciplina

224.06

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I: THE CASE OF 'HOSEA'; Hosea; A Response to 'Hosea'; The Female Body, the Body Politic and the Land: A Sociopolitical Reading of Hosea 1-2; Boxing Gomer: Controlling the Deviant Woman in Hosea 1-3; God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering of Hosea's Wife; Fantasy and the Displacement of Pleasure: Hosea 2.4-17; Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4 and Masculist Interpretation; Marital Fidelity and Intimacy: A View from Hosea 4; I Will Destroy Your Mother: The Obliteration of A Cultic Role in Hosea 4.4-6

God as Mother in Hosea 11Traces of the Goddess in the Book of Hosea; Part II: ON THE PORNOPROPHETICS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE; The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23; On Prophetic Propaganda and the Politics of 'Love': The Case of Jeremiah; Desire under the Terebinths: On Pornographic Representation in the Prophets-A Response; Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near Eastern Treaty-Curses and the Ultimate Texts of Terror: A Study of the Language of Divine Sexual Abuse in the Prophetic Corpus

Part III: SHOULD WE TRUST THE GOD OF THE PROPHETS?Can God be Trusted? Confronting the Deceptive God; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The authoritative status of 'Prophecy' in the Bible poses a challenge to the feminist readers. This challenge is sharpened by the widespread symbolism in prophetic discourse of woman, wife, mother, harlot and



the use of what the volume call 'pornoprophetics'. In this collection it is the book of Hosea that attracts special attention, but there are also articles on sexual violence and an introductory essay on prophecy itself as a literary phenomenon. This Feminist Companion offers a sharp confrontation between the voice of the prophetic male and the resistance of the feminist reader.