Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah
The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 September 2015
- ISBN 9780198743552
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 223x145x24 mm
- Weight 468 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Couey has made a splendid contribution not just to the study of Isaiah but to the discussion of Hebrew poetry in general.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Sigla and Abbreviations
Introduction: "The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry"
The Line in First Isiah
Structure and Movement
Imagery and Metaphor
Conclusion: "More or Less Happy Misunderstandings"
Bibliography
