Prophetic Mediation and Ritual Practice
For this AJR Forum, I have decided to focus on one question which kept resurfacing as I was reading, namely how the prophetic practices that Portier-Young analyzes in the book fit into religious practices in the Hebrew Bible more generally. This question is fundamental to our understanding of prophecy as a socio-religious phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible, and it is a good illustration of how The Prophetic Body invites its reader to re-think texts and concepts that otherwise seemed ‘settled’ and well-known. ...Previous posts on the series are here and links.
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