Of fruit and corpses and wordplay visions: picturing Amos 8.1-3
... The paper is a consideration of the relationship between the ear and the eye and an exploration of Amos 8.1-3 as audiovision. The passage, which is usually read as a 'wordplay vision' (a term that is oxymoronically revealing in itself), can also be imagined as a still life with fruit w...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2001
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2001, Volume: 25, Issue: 92, Pages: 5-27 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Amos 8,1-3
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Amos Prophet
B Bible. Amos 8,1-3 B Iconography B Poetics |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | ... The paper is a consideration of the relationship between the ear and the eye and an exploration of Amos 8.1-3 as audiovision. The passage, which is usually read as a 'wordplay vision' (a term that is oxymoronically revealing in itself), can also be imagined as a still life with fruit with the caption 'women wailing, corpses lying everywhere'. By comparing Yhwh's bizarre vision-works with similar (in fact, obligingly similar) artworks by René Magritte, I explore the vision as a way into both the convulsive poetics of Amos (the book set over the earthquake) and, on an ever larger scale, the whole poetics of prophetic/divine speech. |
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| Item Description: | Mit 18 Abbildungen |
| ISSN: | 0309-0892 |
| Contains: | In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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