Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah

ISBN-13: 9780198856696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 480 str.

Landy

Recenzje

This innovative and beautifully written monograph delves deep into the poetic vision of the book of Isaiah. Landy's powerful prose creates a gallery of evocative and conflicting images, as he lays bare the inherently dialectic character of the book. All its central characters - God, Jerusalem, the Davidic heir, even death itself - are unstable entities that evolve and metamorphose throughout the book, yet ultimately return to their earlier state. God, Isaiah's male protagonist is also a gender-fluid deity, Jerusalem, his female counterpart, is simultaneously an attractive Edenic beauty and a soiled object of abhorrence, and the prophet turns out to be a liminal figure who negotiates between the two.

O autorze

Francis Landy taught Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible for 31 years (1984-2015) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in Canada. His area of specialization is the Hebrew Bible, focusing on the literary interpretation of the text. He has published three books and numerous articles, on all areas of the Hebrew Bible, but the book of Isaiah has been his focus for the last twenty years. He has interests in literary and religious studies theory, postmodernism, and Kabbalah. He was president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in 2009 and 2010, and sits on various editorial boards. He lives in Victoria.