Violence in the Bible remains a challenging and troubling theme. Informed by a pedagogy-and-ministry-informed positionality (in Nairobi, Kenya) and with recourse to two compelling insights—Marlow’s ecological triangle and Lynch’s “grammar of violence,”— Dr. Irudayaraj’s talk focuses on the violent details in four select Isaian texts that constitute the bookends (chapters 1 and 66) and bridge texts (chapters 24 and 34) of the book of Isaiah. In each instance, a four-step process is pursued: (i) naming the violence and its disturbing details; (ii) a close re/reading of other details in the text—details that qualify the dominant tone of violence; (iii) situating both details in their relevant contexts: socio-historical, literary-rhetorical, and theological; and (iv) inquiring into their significance for prophetic attempts at identity adumbration.
https://theologie.unibas.ch/de/atsph/kolloquium/

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Eine Veranstaltung des Fachbereichs Altes Testament und semitische Sprachwissenschaft.