Open AccessProphetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40-48
Author(s) -
Simeon Chavel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of hebrew scriptures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1203-1542
DOI - 10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a3
Subject(s) - ideology , power (physics) , irreducibility , historiography , narratology , philosophy , literature , mainstream , aesthetics , epistemology , art , theology , history , narrative , law , political science , politics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The study argues that to persuade Judeans in Babylon that Yahweh, not Marduk, authored Cyrus' victories, and they should move to Judea, the author of Isa 40-48 countered an historiographically advanced ideology that divine embodiment in royally sponsored temples proves divine will, power, and presence. The author rejects any such historiography as based in human faculties; develops a complex notion of divine irreducibility and prophetic ability; and presents it in a text to match.