Beauty and the Enigma

And Other Essays on the Hebrew Bible

By: Francis Landy

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Hardcover | 1 March 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Key essays linked by the metaphorical techniques of psychoanalysis, and focussing on the ambiguity, subversiveness and enigmatic beauty of biblical texts, notably the Song of Songs and the prophets. This book is a collection of Landy's studies on the poetics of the Hebrew Bible. The Song of Songs is featured alongside the prophetic voices of Amos. Hosea and Isaiah, and essays on the Binding of Isaac and on the book of Ruth. Throughout, the emphasis throughout is on the subversiveness, richness and ambiguity of the text, but above all its (often enigmatic) beauty. The thread of psychoanalysis and its metaphorical technique draws together this collection from one of the Bible's most sensitive and distinctive literary critics.

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Acknowledgments	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 10
Introduction	p. 13
Beauty and the Enigma: An Inquiry into Some Interrelated Episodes of the Song of Songs	p. 35
Poetics and Parallelism: Some Comments on James Kugel's The Idea of Biblical Poetry	p. 96
Narrative Techniques and Symbolic Transactions in the Akedah	p. 123
Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos	p. 159
Tracing the Voice of the Other: Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with Death	p. 185
The Construction of the Subject and the Symbolic Order: A Reading of the Last Three Suffering Servant Songs	p. 206
Ruth and the Romance of Realism, or Deconstructing History	p. 218
On Metaphor, Play and Nonsense	p. 252
In the Wilderness of Speech: Problems of Metaphor in Hosea	p. 273
Strategies of Concentration and Diffusion in Isaiah 6	p. 298
Flood and Fludd	p. 328
Vision and Voice in Isaiah	p. 371
Ghostwriting	p. 392
Index of References	p. 414
Index of Authors	p. 422
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