Synopses & Reviews
Building onrecent developments in biblical studies, this book introduces the propheticliterature of the Old Testament against the background of today's postmodern contextand crisis of meaning. Pulsating with anxiety over the empire--Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian--the prophet corpus is a disturbing cultural expression of lament andchaos. Danger, disjunction, and disaster bubble beneath the surface of virtuallyevery prophetic text. Sometimes in denial, sometimes in despair, and sometimes indefiance, the readers of this literature find themselves living at the edge of time, immediately before, during, or after the collapse of longstanding symbolic, cultural, and geo-political structures. These written prophecies not only reflectthe social location of trauma, but are also a complex response. More specifically, prophetic texts are thick meaning-making maps, tapestries of hope that help at-riskcommunities survive.
Synopsis
Illuminates how the prophetic voices of the Old Testament can still speak hope to exiled and disenfranchised people