Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Portier-Young responds to the reviewers

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW concludes its review series on Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature with a response by Portier-Young:

Awakening Awareness of the Body

May conversations such as these prompt experiences of embodied connection, even across digital spaces, and help us to recover a bodily awareness so often buried beneath reams of paper. May we be mindful of the care and feeding not only of the prophet (and sometimes the deity), but also of the scholar, the student, the writer, and the reader. Have a snack. Stretch. Take a walk. May this bodily awareness shape the questions we bring to our research and renew us for that work.
Previous posts on the series are here and links.

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