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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812732403321

Autore

Heffelfinger Katie M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-12054-2

9786613120540

90-04-19444-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Biblical interpretation series, , 0928-0731 ; ; v. 105

Disciplina

224/.1066

Soggetti

Hebrew poetry, Biblical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.