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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782263703321

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

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