Reading Phinehas, Watching Slashers: Horror Theory and Numbers 25 - Couverture rigide

Grafius, Brandon R.

 
9781978701205: Reading Phinehas, Watching Slashers: Horror Theory and Numbers 25
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1978701209 ISBN 13 : 9781978701205
Editeur : Fortress Academic, 2018

Synopsis

The tale of the "zeal" of Phineas, expressed when he killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex and thus stopped a "plague" of consorting with idolatrous neighbors in the Israelite camp (Numbers 25), has long attracted both interest and revulsion. Scholars have sought to defend the account, to explain it as pious fiction, or to protest its horrific violence. Brandon R. Grafius seeks to understand how the tale expresses the latent anxieties of the Israelite society that produced it, combining the insights of historical criticism with those of contemporary horror and monster theory. Grafius compares Israelite anxieties concerning ethnic boundaries and community organization with similar anxieties apparent in horror films of the 1980s, then finds confirmation for his method in the responses of Roman-period readers who reacted to the tale of Phineas as a tale of horror. The combination of methods allows Grafius to illumine the concern of an ancient priestly class to control unsettled and unsettling community boundaries??and to raise questions of implications for our own time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brandon R. Grafius is assistant professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

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Éditeur
Fortress Academic
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978701209
ISBN 13 
9781978701205
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
228
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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