Portier-Young

The Prophetic Body

Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature

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Buch. Hardcover

2024

344 S.

In englischer Sprache

Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-760496-0

Format (B x L): 16.3 x 24 cm

Gewicht: 635 g

Produktbeschreibung

Modern study of biblical prophecy frequently defines prophecy as a message from God and has focused almost exclusively on prophets' words. But prophecy was always also embodied. Anathea E. Portier-Young insists on the synergy of word and body in biblical prophecy. Prophets did more than reveal knowledge: the prophetic body connected God and people, making them present to one another, channeling divine power, traveling between realms. Drawing insights from disciplines ranging from neurobiology to cultural studies, the author examines stories of prophetic commissioning, bodily transformation, asceticism and ecstasy, mobility and immobility, affect and emotion, revealing the body's centrality to prophetic mediation.