Violence, otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6 : the trampling one coming from Edom /: the trampling one coming from Edom. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dominic S. Irudayaraj.
• Authors: Irudayaraj, Dominic S
• Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Overview of the Chapters -- Chapter 1: "Trito-Isaiah" and the Text -- 1.1. Introductory Remarks -- 1.2. "Trito-Isaiah": Isaiah 56-66 -- 1.2.1. Historical Pointers -- 1.2.2. Literary Structure -- 1.2.3. Theological Themes -- 1.3. The Text: Isaiah 63:1-6 -- 1.3.1. Preliminary Considerations 1.3.2. Textual Notes, Scholarly Options, and a Translation -- 1.3.3. Unity and Function -- 1.3.4. Genre, Structure, and Poetic Elements -- 1.3.5. Intertextual Echoes -- 1.4. Concluding Comments -- Chapter 2: Social Identity Approach and Proximate "Other" -- 2.1. Introductory Remarks -- 2.2. Social Identity Approach: Methodological Overview -- 2.2.1. Origin -- 2.2.2. Social Identity Theory -- 2.2.3. Self-categorization Theory -- 2.2.4. Social Identity Approach -- 2.2.5. Merits and Limitations of SIA -- 2.2.6. SIA in Biblical Studies and Qumran Literature -- 2.3. The Proximate "Other" -- 2.3.1. Identity Construction -- 2.3.2. Persisting Category -- 2.3.3. Permeable Boundary -- 2.3.4. Ambivalence -- 2.3.5. Agonistic Context -- 2.4. Concluding Comments -- Excursus: Identity and Boundary: Fredrik Barth and Beyond -- Chapter 3: Coming From Edom: Ambivalent Depictions -- 3.1. Introductory Remarks -- 3.2. Animosity Towards Edom and Scholarly Appropriations -- 3.3. Edom, the Proximate "Other": A Social Identity Approach Reading of Isaiah 63:1-6 -- 3.3.1. Agonistic Space -- 3.3.2. Edom, the Persisting Category -- 3.3.3. Permeable Boundary -- 3.3.4. Ambivalence -- 3.3.5. Identity Construction -- 3.4. Concluding Comments -- Chapter 4: The Trampling One: Descriptions of Marginality -- 4.1. Introductory Remarks -- 4.2. The Trampling One: Survey of Scholarship -- 4.3. Violent Portrayals and Marginal Communities: A Correlation. 4.3.1. The Case of Kālī -- 4.3.2. The Example of Grāmadevatā -- 4.3.3. The Rationale -- 4.3.4. Transformation in the Violent Depictions -- 4.3.5. The Correlation in the Biblical Contexts -- 4.4. Iconographic Exegesis -- 4.4.1. Role and Relevance of Images/Icons -- 4.4.2. Iconographic Exegesis: A Roadmap -- 4.4.3. Iconographic Exegesis and Third Isaiah -- 4.5. The Trampling One in Gory Depiction: Re-reading Isaiah 63:1-6 -- 4.5.1. The Setting -- 4.5.2. The Challenged Divine -- 4.5.3. Description of the Trampling One -- 4.5.4. The Action: Vigorous Trampling or Laborious Treading? -- 4.6. Concluding Comments -- Chapter 5: Otherness, the Ultimate and the Proximate: Correlated and Revived Identities -- 5.1. Introductory Remarks -- 5.2. The Ultimate "Other" and Theological Identity Revival -- 5.2.1. Isaian Image of God: An Interplay -- 5.2.2. The Arriving One: An Interplay of Mighty and Marginal -- 5.2.3. Theological Identity Revival -- 5.3. Proximate "Other": Ambivalent Descriptions -- 5.3.1. Edom, Israel's Proximate "Other" -- 5.3.2. The Enduring Edom -- 5.4. Identity Affirmation -- 5.4.1. Challenge and Response -- 5.4.2. Correlated and Revived Identities -- 5.5. Concluding Comments -- Chapter 6: Retrospect and Prospect -- 6.1. Introductory Remarks -- 6.2. Retrospect -- 6.2.1. Gory Portrayals vis-à-vis Descriptions of Marginality -- 6.2.2. Coming from Edom: Ambivalence and Proximate "Other" -- 6.2.3. Otherness, the Connecting Thread -- 6.2.4. Violent Texts and Reading Strategies -- 6.3. Prospect -- 6.3.1. "The Treader of the Wine Press of Fury" in the New Testament -- 6.3.2. Owning Up to the Divine Warrior in My Own Cultural Milieu -- 6.3.3. Scope and Relevance of Proximate "Other" -- 6.4. A Disposition, an Analogy, and an Invitation -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 224/.106; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567671479
• Related ISBNs: 056767147X; 9780567671462; 0567671461
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2017).
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