Monday, September 08, 2025

Chan 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 Xenia L. Chan:

The Decolonial Prophetic Body

The possibilities for me in embodiment that Portier-Young invites us to bring Hebrew Bible prophecy back into a magical world—one that unravels objectification and begins to reconstitute land and community as enfleshed together.
Previous posts on the series are here and links.

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