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Author Landy, Francis, author.

Title Poetry, catastrophe, and hope in the vision of Isaiah / Francis Landy
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Contents Introduction -- Inceptions and inseminations -- The covenant with death -- Depression and the oracles about the nations -- The constitutive enigma -- The child king -- Mirror texts and liturgies -- The spectral mother: permutations of exile -- In conclusion
Summary "Offers a deep reading of the book of Isaiah by considering the response of poetry to catastrophe. Contributes to the growing body of feminist and gender-based interpretations of the Bible. Focuses on poetry and poets, to counter the conventional emphasis on scribes and scribal communities in biblical studies."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed August 2, 2023)
SUBJECT Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Isaiah -- Feminist criticism
Subject Disasters -- Biblical teaching
Hope in the Bible.
Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192598714
0192598716
9780191889875
0191889873