Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6
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Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6

The Trampling One Coming from Edom

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Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6

The Trampling One Coming from Edom

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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.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2017
ISBN
9780567671479
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: “Trito-Isaiah” and the Text
  11. Chapter 2: Social Identity Approach and Proximate “Other”
  12. Chapter 3: Coming From Edom: Ambivalent Depictions
  13. Chapter 4: The Trampling One: Descriptions of Marginality
  14. Chapter 5: Otherness, the Ultimate and the Proximate: Correlated and Revived Identities
  15. Chapter 6: Retrospect and Prospect
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index of References
  18. Index of Authors