I am large, I contain multitudes : lyric cohesion and conflict in Second Isaiah / by Katie M. Heffelfinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heffelfinger, Katie M.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 105.

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Isaiah, XL-LV--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Isaiah, XL-LV--Language, style.

Hebrew poetry, Biblical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book joins the notion that Second Isaiah is a poetic text with the task of interpreting it as a unified whole. In so doing, it makes methodological suggestions for applying a lyric poetic approach to biblical texts. The practical application of this approach shows Second Isaiah to be characterized by tension, conflict, and juxtaposition. The lyric model shows these conflicts, such as the presence of searing indictments in the ‘book of comfort,’ to be integral elements of the mode by which Second Isaiah addresses its audience. This book highlights the tonalities of the divine voice as central to Second Isaiah’s particularly poetic mode of cohesion and essential to the conflicted comfort Second Isaiah offers its reader.

Contents:

Introduction : the role of poetry in the interpretation of Second Isaiah

Second Isaiah and lyric tools

The problem of comfort : Second Isaiah's rhetorical environment and its intractable problem

A paratactic-cohesive whole : lyric unity in Second Isaiah

Tonal tension and resolution in the divine speaking voice.

Notes:

"This project is a revision of my Emory University doctoral dissertation"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-12054-2

9786613120540

90-04-19444-4

OCLC:

727952118

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004193833.i-328 DOI