
The Desert Will Bloom
poetic visions in Isaiah
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 16. December 2009
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-90-04-16926-5 (ISBN)
Description
Isaiah's vision of the future is nothing less than a portrait of shalom involving peace, wholeness, and hope both for the human community and the earth. Throughout the scroll, imagery drawn from nature affirms that renewal of life, like the renewal of the earth, is possible for the human family. The essays in this volume explore the poetic artistry and symbolic imagery in the Isaiah scroll. They examine specific texts, interpreting important language and imagery in those texts, delineating the functions and implications of such imagery and metaphors throughout the entire book of Isaiah, and presenting fresh methodological and interpretive considerations in reading Isaiah. The contributors are Willem A. M. Beuken, Carol J. Dempsey, A. Joseph Everson, Chris A. Franke, James M. Kennedy, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Francis Landy, Roy F. Melugin, Gary Stansell, Marvin A. Sweeney, Patricia K. Tull, Roy D. Wells, and Hugh G. M. Williamson.
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Series
Edition
xii, 299 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-16926-5 (9789004169265)
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Persons
A. Joseph Everson is Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California and Hyun Chul Paul Kim is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Williams Chair of Biblical Studies at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio. The editors co-chair the Formation of the Book of Isaiah Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, from which these papers are drawn.