Poets, prophets, and texts in play
Subtitle: studies in biblical poetry and prophecy in honour of Francis Landy
By: edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn, Aaron W. Hughes
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 597; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 597.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780567224095; 9780567295316
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1, Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand, Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure, developing conversations between texts across the centuries that enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of literature
Notes: Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Contemporary perspectives on ancient texts. Of an imagination all compact: the garden, the forest and the wasteland as the apple of the prophetic poet's eye / James R. Linville; title: Divine and human wisdom in the book of Hosea: a pedagogical perspective / Kåre Berge; title: Remembering Hosea: the prophet Hosea as a site of memory in Persian period Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Misapprehensions, ancient and modern, about lions (Nahum 2:13) / David J.A. Clines; title: Intertextual allusion using the root [ ] in Zechariah 9:13-15 / Diana V. Edelman; title: A bird on the roof: trauma and affect in Psalm 102 / Fiona C. Black; title: The man in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum; title: "The most beautiful woman," "woman wisdom," and "the strange woman": on femininity in the Song of Songs / Daphna V. Arbel; title: Poetry amid ruins / Peter J. Sabo; title: Part II. Ancient texts and their cultural afterlives. Reflections on the reception exegesis of Isaiah / John F.A. Sawyer; title: Poetry, mercy, and the phenomenology of justice / Benjamin L. Berger; title: The poet's silence: language and non-language in Rosenzweig / Aaron W. Hughes; title: Loving the highwayman: Proverbs 1-9 and the romance of the road / Claudia V. Camp and David M. Gunn; title: Handel and the "queen of the garden" / Philip R. Davies; title: The Bible in Moominvalley: the child as reader and the deceptive biblical author / Hugh S. Pyper.