1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453942503321

Autore

Quinn-Miscall Peter D. <1943->

Titolo

Isaiah 34-35 [[electronic resource] ] : a nightmare/a dream / / Peter D. Miscall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999

ISBN

1-281-81447-4

9786611814472

0-567-38013-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 281

Disciplina

224.106

224.1066 M678i

224/.106

Soggetti

Theology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 READING THE POEM; Chapter 3 READING ISAIAH; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

By a poetic analysis of Isaiah 34-35 as a single poem, the reading explores in depth its imagery, themes and structure. Attention to detail is combined with wide-ranging discussions of reading and interpretation, which revolve around the contrasting, and strangely interrelated, scenes of destruction (nightmare) and restoration (dream) found in the two parts of the poem. The poem emerges as an integral part of Isaiah, which is treated as a single work. The consistency is revealed in parallel terms, images and structure. Implications of the analysis and mode of reading for the whole of Isaiah ar



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815060803321

Autore

Soike Lowell J.

Titolo

Busy in the cause : Iowa, the free-state struggle in the west, and the prelude to the Civil War / / Lowell J. Soike

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-7385-1

0-8032-7384-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (501 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036050HIS036090SOC054000

Disciplina

973.7/11

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - Iowa - History - 19th century

Abolitionists - Iowa - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

Iowa Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Uncertainty Rising; 2. The Morning Star; 3. Prairie, Dust, and Wind; 4. "Do Come and Help Us. Come On through Iowa"; 5. Ho! For Kansas; 6. Scramble to Freedom; 7. Raising the Stakes; 8. Heaven Sent; 9. North and Back: Captors and Liberators; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

"Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation's western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics



concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike's narrative illuminates Iowa's role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War. "--