Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
- Frontispiece
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of Events Related to the Book of Isaiah
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Book of Isaiah Through History
- Part II Isaiah in Its Cultural World
- Part III Isaiah as Literature
- 12 Isaiah as Poetry
- 13 Isaiah in Intertextual Perspective
- 14 Gendered Imagery in Isaiah
- 15 Divine and Human Plans in the Book of Isaiah
- Part IV Afterlives of the Book of Isaiah
- Scripture Index
- Other Texts Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion ()
- References
12 - Isaiah as Poetry
from Part III - Isaiah as Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
- Frontispiece
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of Events Related to the Book of Isaiah
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Book of Isaiah Through History
- Part II Isaiah in Its Cultural World
- Part III Isaiah as Literature
- 12 Isaiah as Poetry
- 13 Isaiah in Intertextual Perspective
- 14 Gendered Imagery in Isaiah
- 15 Divine and Human Plans in the Book of Isaiah
- Part IV Afterlives of the Book of Isaiah
- Scripture Index
- Other Texts Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion ()
- References
Summary
J. Blake Couey, in “Isaiah as Poetry,” begins with the basic fact that nearly all of the book is written as poetry and encourages readers to approach it as such. He surveys its erudite vocabulary, its creative use of sound, and its parallelism and larger strophic structures. He closes with an extended appreciation of the “imaginative worlds” evoked in the book through the use of imagery and metaphors. He observes of its poetic vision that “its scope is nearly boundless.”
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah , pp. 189 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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Further Reading
Alonso Schökel, Luis. “Isaiah.” Pages 165–83 in The Literary Guide to the Bible, ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Couey, J. Blake. “Poetry, Language, and Statecraft in Isaiah 18.” Pages 167–83 in Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading. Edited by Couey, J. Blake and James, Elaine T.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Couey, J. Blake. Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W. On Biblical Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hays, Christopher B. “Damming Egypt/Damning Egypt: The Parnomasia of skr and the Unity of Isa 19, 1–10.” ZAW 120 (2008): 612–17.Google Scholar
Heffelfinger, Katie M. I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: Lyric Cohesion and Conflict in Second Isaiah. BibleInt 105. Leiden: Brill, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schipper, Jeremy. “Why Does Imagery of Disability Include Healing in Isaiah?” JSOT 39 (2015): 319–33.Google Scholar
Tull, Patricia K. “Persistent Vegetative States: People as Plants and Plants as People in Isaiah.” Pages 17–34 in The Desert Will Bloom: Poetic Visions in Isaiah. Edited by Everson, A. Joseph and Paul Kim, Hyun Chul. Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and its Literature 4. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.Google Scholar
Williamson, H. G. M. “Sound, Sense and Language in Isaiah 24–27.” JJS 46 (1995): 1–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar