Beauty and the enigma : and other essays on the Hebrew Bible / Francis Landy

Author:: Landy, Francis
Published:: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, [2001]
Copyright Date:: ©2001
Physical Description:: 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 312

Language Note:

Text in English with sections in Hebrew.

Contents:

Beauty and the enigma: an inquiry into some interrelated episodes of the Song of Songs -- Poetics and parallelism: some comments on James Kugel's The idea of biblical poetry -- Narrative techniques and symbolic transactions in the Akedah -- Vision and poetic speech in Amos -- Tracing the voice of the other: Isaiah 28 and the covenant with death -- The construction of the subject and the symbolic order: a reading of the last three suffering servant songs -- Ruth and the romance of realism, or deconstructing history -- On metaphor, play and nonsense -- In the wilderness of speech: problems of metaphor in Hosea -- Strategies of concentration and diffusion in Isaiah 6 -- Flood and Fludd -- Vision and voice in Isaiah -- Ghostwriting.

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ISBN:

1841271470

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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