TY - BOOK ID - 138057596 TI - Poetry, catastrophe, and hope in the vision of Isaiah PY - 2023 SN - 9780198856696 0198856695 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Disasters KW - Hope in the Bible KW - Hebrew poetry, Biblical KW - Biblical teaching KW - History and criticism KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138057596 AB - The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy's book tells the story of the poetic response to catastrophe, and the hope for a new and perfect world on the other side. The study traces two parallel developments: the displacement of the Davidic promise onto the Persian Empire, Israel, and the prophet himself; and the transition from exclusively male images of the deity to the matching of male and female prototypes, whereby YHWH takes the place of the warrior goddess. ER -