Flannery on Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW continues its review series on Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature with an essay by Frances Flannery:

Towards Divine Embodiment and Biblical Animism: A Review and Suggestion for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body

... Reading an embodied and animistic divine in biblical prophetic texts challenges the very foundations of religious studies, which were long predicated on making “animism” a dirty word. ...

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