Poetry with a Purpose Biblical Poetics and Interpretation

Name: Poetry with a Purpose Biblical Poetics and Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780253205643

ISBN-10: 0253205646

ISBN-13: 9780253205643

Edition: N/A

Authors: Harold Fisch

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Do Old Testament poetry and narrative, wisdom-writing and prophecy work on us in the same way as do nonbiblical literary texts? Competent readers over the centuries have arrived at conflicting answers to this question. Some (from Longinus on) have maintained that biblical books offer examples of supreme literary art; others have passionately rejected this approach, insisting that beauty and pleasure are not the Bible's business.Poetry with a Purpose argues that, paradoxically, both views are right. Biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between aesthetic and nonaesthetic (even anti-aesthetic) modes of discourse. To understand this dialectic is to understand something quite…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 205
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English