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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.

Note biographique

Anathea E. Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School. She earned a B.A. in Classics (Greek) at Yale University and M.A. in Biblical Languages at Graduate Theological Union / Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) from Duke University. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (2011) and co-editor of Scripture and Social Justice: Catholic and Ecumenical Essays (2018). Her research focuses on biblical prophetic and apocalyptic literature and early Jewish apocalypses and novellas.

Table des matières

• Part I An Embodied Paradigm


• Chapter 1: The Buried Body


• Chapter 2: Re-Embodying Biblical Prophecy


• Part II Called in the Flesh


• Chapter 3: God's Surrogate (Exodus 3-4)


• Chapter 4: First-Person


• Part III Transformations


• Chapter 5: Becoming Other


• Chapter 6: Transformative Practice


• Chapter 7: Ecstasy


• Part IV (E)Motion and Affect


• Chapter 8: Mobility and Immobility


• Chapter 9: Anger and Tears


• Chapter 10: Devastation and Wonder


• Conclusion

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