Please come hear PhD student Zach Selby present his paper, entitled, “The Violent Herem: Spatial Transformations of Class Status in the Book of Joshua.”

The historiography of conquest is not often thought of as a meditation on class struggle. However, there are significant exceptions to the violence of the Israelite’s conquest of the indigenous inhabitants of Canaan that suggest class antagonisms lurk just below the surface of the texts. Using a model of interpretation developed by Fredric Jameson, we can interrogate these traditions and their spatial concepts as aesthetic objects exploring social contradictions in post-monarchic Israelite Yehud.

Join us on Zoom: https://ctschicago-edu.zoom.us/j/98949536650