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Poets, prophets, and texts in play : studies in biblical poetry and prophecy in honour of Francis Landy / edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn, Aaron W. Hughes.

Contributor(s): Landy, Francis [honouree.] | Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951- [editor.] | Camp, Claudia V, 1951- [editor.] | Gunn, D. M. (David M.) [editor.] | Hughes, Aaron W, 1968- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 597.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015Description: xxx, 264 pages : portrait ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567224095; 0567224090Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Landy, FrancisDDC classification: 221.6/6 LOC classification: BS1171.3 | .P64 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; "The publications of Francis Landy": pages [xiii]-xviii.
Contents:
Contemporary perspectives on ancient texts -- Of an imagination all compact: the garden, the forest and the wasteland as the apple of the prophetic poet's eye / James R. Linville -- Divine and human wisdom in the book of Hosea: a pedagogical perspective / Kåre Berge -- Remembering Hosea: the prophet Hosea as a site of memory in Persian period Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Misapprehensions, ancient and modern, about lions (Nahum 2:13) / David J.A. Clines -- Intertextual allusion using the root [gnn] in Zechariah 9:13-15 / Diana V. Edelman -- A bird on the roof: trauma and affect in Psalm 102 / Fiona C. Black -- The man in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- "The most beautiful woman," "woman wisdom," and "the strange woman": on femininity in the Song of Songs / Daphna V. Arbel -- Poetry amid ruins / Peter J. Sabo -- Ancient texts and their cultural afterlives -- Reflections on the reception exegesis of Isaiah / John F.A. Sawyer -- Poetry, mercy, and the phenomenology of justice / Benjamin L. Berger -- The poet's silence: language and non-language in Rosenzweig / Aaron W. Hughes -- Loving the highwayman: Proverbs 1-9 and the romance of the road / Claudia V. Camp and David M. Gunn -- Handel and the "queen of the garden" / Philip R. Davies -- The Bible in Moominvalley: the child as reader and the deceptive biblical author / Hugh S. Pyper.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The publications of Francis Landy": pages [xiii]-xviii.

Part I. Contemporary perspectives on ancient texts -- Of an imagination all compact: the garden, the forest and the wasteland as the apple of the prophetic poet's eye / James R. Linville -- Divine and human wisdom in the book of Hosea: a pedagogical perspective / Kåre Berge -- Remembering Hosea: the prophet Hosea as a site of memory in Persian period Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Misapprehensions, ancient and modern, about lions (Nahum 2:13) / David J.A. Clines -- Intertextual allusion using the root [gnn] in Zechariah 9:13-15 / Diana V. Edelman -- A bird on the roof: trauma and affect in Psalm 102 / Fiona C. Black -- The man in the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- "The most beautiful woman," "woman wisdom," and "the strange woman": on femininity in the Song of Songs / Daphna V. Arbel -- Poetry amid ruins / Peter J. Sabo -- Part II. Ancient texts and their cultural afterlives -- Reflections on the reception exegesis of Isaiah / John F.A. Sawyer -- Poetry, mercy, and the phenomenology of justice / Benjamin L. Berger -- The poet's silence: language and non-language in Rosenzweig / Aaron W. Hughes -- Loving the highwayman: Proverbs 1-9 and the romance of the road / Claudia V. Camp and David M. Gunn -- Handel and the "queen of the garden" / Philip R. Davies -- The Bible in Moominvalley: the child as reader and the deceptive biblical author / Hugh S. Pyper.

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