| Prophet Reads Scripture Prophet Reads Scripture Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (F First Edition,1 Edition Contributor(s): Sommer, Benjamin D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804732167 ISBN-13: 9780804732161 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1998 Annotation: "This book is a very careful and well-written consideration of how Second Isaiah uses scripture. It demonstrates a deep knowledge of literature and literary theory that is not often paralleled in the field of biblical studies, and it goes beyond earlier pathbreaking work on 'inner-biblical exegesis.' Especially provocative is Sommer's argument that the prophesies of Isa. 1-- 39 evidently did not bear any primacy of authority for Second Isaiah. The thesis is closely argued and will certainly attract much attention and further discussion."-- Gary A. Anderson, Harvard Divinity School " This very impressive work is an original and deeply instructive contribution to biblical studies. Sommer is a finely perceptive reader of biblical texts, has a real mastery of the immense body of biblical scholarship, and moves with remarkable assurance from literary to historical analysis. The book not only enables us to read the prophet Deutero-Isaiah in a new and illuminating way but also leads us to understand the development of later biblical history in a new way." -- Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament - Religion | Judaism - Sacred Writings - Religion | Reference |
| Dewey: 224.106 |
| LCCN: 98020169 |
| Series: Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.4" W x 9.34" (1.55 lbs) 372 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By examining literary allusion in Isaiah 40-66, the author illuminates the changes that led to the demise of biblical prophecy and the rise of hermeneutically based religions in the post-biblical era. |