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Author: Peter D. Quinn-Miscall
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780664223694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical, "how-to" literary introduction to Isaiah as a poem is based upon the English text and focuses upon parallelism, figurative language, and the use of imagery.
Author: J. Blake Couey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0198743556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows that Isaiah 1-39 contains one of the most remarkable and provocative poetic voices in the Hebrew Bible, and that attention to its poetic style makes a significant difference to the interpretation of the text.
Author: J. Blake Couey
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0191061204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading 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.
Author: J. Blake Couey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108698190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Composed of essays by fifteen leading scholars of biblical poetry, it offers creative and insightful close readings of poems from across the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Psalms, wisdom poetry, Song of Songs, prophecy, and poetry in biblical narrative). The essays build on recent advances in our understanding of biblical poetry and engage a variety of theoretical perspectives and current trends in the study of literature. They demonstrate the rewards of careful attention to textual detail, and they provide models of the practice of close reading for students, scholars, and general readers. They also highlight the rich aesthetic value of the biblical poetic corpus and offer reflection on the nature of poetry itself as a meaningful and enduring form of art.
Author: Victor L. Ludlow
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781590381700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aviya Kushner
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781949039177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAviya Kushner (The Grammar of God) places the prophet Isaiah in the position of poet, crooner, and rival in her debut poetry collection, seeking a guide in poetry and in life.
Author: Christopher R. North
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2005-03-03
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1597521094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis all-purpose commentary is by the author of 'The Suffering Servant in Deutero-Isaiah'. It meets the needs of the specialist but most of it should be intelligible to preachers and teachers who know little or no Hebrew. The Introduction discusses the literary structure of the prophecy, the theology of Deutero-Isaiah (with some reference to current theological debate), and the problem of Salvation History. The exegetical notes are based on the author's own translation from the Hebrew text. The purpose of the book is to elucidate the message of the Prophet in the context of Scripture as a whole.
Author: Craig C. Broyles
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789004110267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe studies in this volume investigate Isaiah's use of early sacred tradition, the editing and contextualization of oracles within the Isaianic tradition itself, and the interpretation of the book of Isaiah in later traditions (as in the various versions and interpretations of the text).
Author: Barbara Bakke Kaiser
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1532662912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume seeks to guide students in religious or literary studies or other interested readers toward understanding and appreciation of biblical prophetic poetry. Each of the three sections of the book includes a chapter examining one of the literary features with brief examples from prophetic texts, followed by another chapter of applied criticism of a full prophetic poem (Joel 2 on parallelism, Jeremiah 4 on voice, and Isaiah 24 on design). Among the distinct features of the book are diagrams of parallel lines, promoting two-dimensional, “binocular” reading of the poems. Of all the literature of the Bible, prophetic poetry has probably been least accessible to the modern reader. Language is dense, images are obscure, and logical development of ideas seems almost inaccessible. Reading Prophetic Poetry seeks to help readers appreciate the luminous beauty of the language and the austere power and surprising relevance of the ideas in these relatively obscure biblical texts. It introduces an accessible approach to prophetic poetry which invites readers to turn to the biblical texts on their own with new ideas for appreciating the riches of these ancient poems.
Author: Barry G. Webb
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2023-11-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1514006367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this BST volume, Barry Webb showcases the outstanding brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the gospel that the book of Isaiah offers. With accessible insight, he shows how the threads of the Old Testament come together in Isaiah, training our ears and hearts to resonate with its great biblical-theological themes.
