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An Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an accessibly written
introduction to biblical poetry that emphasizes the aesthetic
dimensions of poems and their openness to varieties of context. It
demonstrates the irreducible complexity of poetry as a verbal art
and considers the intellectual work poems accomplish as they offer
aesthetic experiences to people who read or hear them. Chapters
walk the reader through some of the diverse ways biblical poems are
organized through techniques of voicing, lineation, and form, and
describe how the poems' figures are both culturally and
historically bound and always dependent on later reception. The
discussions consider examples from different texts of the Bible,
including poems inset in prose narratives, prophecies, psalms, and
wisdom literature. Each chapter ends with a reading of a psalm that
offers an acute example of the dimension under discussion. Students
and general readers are invited to richer and deeper readings of
ancient poems and the subjects, problems, and convictions that
occupy their imagination.
In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of The Song of
Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in
the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape
architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of
scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and
"culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape
indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device
that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens,
cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With
this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the
Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in
which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly
enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.
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