[Rezension von: Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972-, Claiming her dignity]
The book starts with the sentence that "to be human means to resist dehumanization" (p. xiii), which as introductory sentence provides an excellent summary of what the book attempts. This is the lens through which the book reads ten or so narratives from the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2019, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 263-266 |
| Review of: | Claiming her dignity (Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, 2016) (Meyer, Esias E.)
Claiming her dignity (Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, 2016) (Meyer, Esias E.) Claiming Her Dignity (Collegeville, MN : Liturgical Press, 2016) (Meyer, Esias E.) |
| RelBib Classification: | HA Bible ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The book starts with the sentence that "to be human means to resist dehumanization" (p. xiii), which as introductory sentence provides an excellent summary of what the book attempts. This is the lens through which the book reads ten or so narratives from the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha. The purpose of the book is to focus on "often unnoted acts of resistance" (p. xvii), especially acts which are "nonviolent in nature". Claassens engagement with the narratives is divided into four chapters in which we encounter resistance against "the violence of war" (Chapter 1), "the violence of rape" (Chapter 2), "the violence of heterarchy" (Chapter 3) and "the violence of precarity" (Chapter 4). In this review I will briefly sum up and critique her readings in these four chapters. Some are more convincing than others and my review will start by presenting a summary of each chapter as well as a discussion of weaknesses and strengths. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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