Prophetic Otherness : Constructions of Otherness in Prophetic Literature (Hardcover)

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction - Otherness and Constructs of Power in Prophetic texts - Steed Vernyl Davidson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA Section I - Metaphors of Otherness Chapter 1 - Edom, the Proximate Other: Persisting Category and Permeable Boundary: A Social Identity Reading of Isaiah 63:1-6 - Dominic Sundararaj Irudayaraj, Hekima University College, Kenya Chapter 2 - Where is Clytemnestra When You Need Her?: The Womb, The Masculine Economy of Prophecy, and the Problematics of Otherness - Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College, USA Chapter 3 - Prophecy and Alterity in Isaiah's Oracles Against the Nations - Francis Landy, University of Alberta, Canada Chapter 4 -Chapter 6 - A Dragon, a Reed Staff, and a Towering Cedar in Eden: Egypt in Ezekiel 29-32 - Brittany Kim, Bethel University, USA Section II - Representations of Otherness Chapter 5 - Unstable Constructions of Otherness: Competing Voices and Ambivalent Portrayals of Power in Ezekiel's Disputation Speeches - Diandra Chretain, Graduate Theological Union, USA Chapter 6 - The Exodus Motif in First Isaiah and the Alienation of Humankind from the Self - Job Jindo Chapter 7 - The Construction and Deconstruction of Ethnic/National Othering in the Book of the Twelve - Daniel Timmer, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA Chapter 8 - Geographies of Otherness: Otherness in Territorial Organization in the Oracles Against the Nations - Steed Vernyl Davidson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA Bibliography Index