Violence, otherness and identity in Isaiah 63:1-6: the trampling one coming from Edom

Violence disturbs. And violent depictions, when encountered in the biblical texts, are all the more disconcerting. Isaiah 63:1-6 is an illustrative instance. The prophetic text presents the "Arriving One" in gory details ('trampling down people'; 'pouring out their lifeblood...

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Main Author: Irudayaraj, Dominic S. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London Oxford New York New Delhi Syndey Bloomsbury International Clark 2017
In: Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (633)
Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies 633
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Jesaja 63,1-6 / Violence
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Violence in the Bible
B Bible. Isaiah Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Thesis
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Summary:Violence disturbs. And violent depictions, when encountered in the biblical texts, are all the more disconcerting. Isaiah 63:1-6 is an illustrative instance. The prophetic text presents the "Arriving One" in gory details ('trampling down people'; 'pouring out their lifeblood' v.6). Further, the introductory note that the Arriving One is "coming from Edom" (cf. v.1) may suggest Israel's unrelenting animosity towards Edom. These two themes: the "gory depiction" and "coming from Edom" are addressed in this book. Irudayaraj uses a social identity reading to show how Edom is consistently pictured as Israel's proximate and yet 'other'-ed entity. Approaching Edom as such thus helps situate the animosity within a larger prophetic vision of identity construction in the postexilic Third Isaian context. By adopting an iconographic reading of Isaiah 63:1-6, Irudayaraj shows how the prophetic portrayal of the 'Arriving One' in descriptions where it is clear that the 'Arriving One' is a marginalised identity correlates with the experiences of the "stooped" exiles (cf 51:14). He also demonstrates that the text leaves behind emphatic affirmations ('mighty' and 'splendidly robed' cf. v.1; "alone" cf. v.3), by which the relegated voice of the divine reasserts itself. It is in this divine reassertion that the hope of the Isaian community's reclamation of its own identity rests. -- See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/violence-otherness-and-identity-in-isaiah-631-6-9780567671462/#sthash.tmr1tY0l.dpuf
"Trito-Isaiah" and the Text -- Social Identity Approach and Proximate "Other" -- Coming From Edom : Ambivalent Depictions -- The Trampling One : Descriptions of Marginality -- Otherness, the Ultimate and the Proximate : Correlated and Revived Identities -- Retrospect and Prospect
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