Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,3 (2023) 259-276
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible. Criticism, Redaction
;
Bible. Social scientific criticism
;
Resilience (Personality trait) Biblical teaching
Abstract:
This paper elucidates the ways in which the composition and redaction of Isa. 2.2–4(5) function to both exhibit and impart resilience to hearers/readers based on the congruity between Nissinen’s appraisal of scribal activity as “restructuring the symbolic universe” and the process of cognitive behavioral therapy. To begin, I discuss the redactional placement of Isa. 2.2–4(5), delineating its role in reframing earlier judgment texts, along with its overall purpose through comparison with Mic. 1.1–5. Next, I demonstrate how the imagery of Isa. 2.2–4(5) co-opts and reframes the political ecosystem actively perpetuated by the Achaemenid Empire. Finally, through the work of Clemens Sedmak and Robert J. Schreiter, I (1) define resilience as “a capacity to resist” and (2) display the ways in which both the literary and ideological reframing of Isa. 2.2–4(5) likely signified and produced resilience in a manner akin to cognitive reframing for the postexilic community of Yehud.
DOI:
10.1177/03090892221149051
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