The Prophetic Body

Anathea E. Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School. She earned a B.A. in Classics (Greek) at Yale University and M.A. in Biblical Languages at Graduate Theological Union / Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) from Duke University. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (2011) and co-editor of Scripture and Social Justice: Catholic and Ecumenical Essays (2018). Her research focuses on biblical prophetic and apocalyptic literature and early Jewish apocalypses and novellas.

• Part I An Embodied Paradigm Chapter 1: The Buried Body Chapter 2: Re-Embodying Biblical Prophecy Part II Called in the Flesh Chapter 3: God's Surrogate (Exodus 3-4) Chapter 4: First-Person Part III Transformations Chapter 5: Becoming Other Chapter 6: Transformative Practice Chapter 7: Ecstasy Part IV (E)Motion and Affect Chapter 8: Mobility and Immobility Chapter 9: Anger and Tears Chapter 10: Devastation and Wonder Conclusion

In reframing prophecy as fundamentally embodied, Portier-Young lingers over aspects of texts we had previously overlooked, giving fresh understanding of the prophet's relationship to deity, people, and place. With careful exegesis amplified by wide-ranging yet apt insights from fields as disparate as poetry, neuroscience, affect theory, and monster culture, this study is both integrative and innovative. Its subtle argument, clearly and vividly expressed, will prove impossible to ignore.