Beauty and the Enigma: And Other Essays on the Hebrew Bible

by Francis Landy, Andrew Mein (Editor), Claudia V. Camp (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841271477
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies , #312
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Andrew Mein is Lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Durham, UK.

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.