Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah - The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry (Hardcover)

Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah provides a literary and historical study of the prophetic poetry of First Isaiah, an underappreciated but highly sophisticated collection of poems in the Hebrew Bible. Informed by recent developments in biblical studies and broader trends in the study of poetry, Dr J. Blake Couey articulates a fresh account of Biblical Hebrew poetry and argues that careful attention to poetic style is crucial for the interpretation of these texts. Discussing lineation, he explains that lines serve important rhetorical functions in First Isaiah, but the absence of lineated manuscripts from antiquity makes it necessary to defend proposed line divisions using criteria such as parallelism, rhythm, and syntax. He examines poetic structure, and highlights that parallelism and enjambment create a sense of progression between individual lines, which are tightly joined to form couplets, triplets, quatrains, and occasionally even longer groups. Later, Dr Couey treats imagery and metaphor in First Isaiah. A striking variety of images-most notably agricultural and animal imagery-appear in diverse contexts in these poems, often with rich figurative significance.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2015
Authors:	J. Blake Couey (Associate Professor of Religion)
Dimensions:	223 x 145 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-874355-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament > General Books > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament
LSN:	0-19-874355-6
Barcode:	9780198743552

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