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Title The desert will bloom : poetic visions in Isaiah / edited by A. Joseph Everson and Hyun Chul Paul Kim
Published Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages)
Series Society of Biblical Literature ancient Israel and its literature ; 4
Ancient Israel and its literature ; 4.
Contents Poetic imagination, intertextuality, and life in a symbolic world / Roy F. Melugin -- Persistent vegetative states : people as plants and plants as people in Isaiah / Patricia K. Tull -- Like a mother I have comforted you: the function of figurative language in Isaiah 1:7-26 and 66:7-14 / Chris A. Franke -- A bitter memory : Isaiah's commission in Isaiah 6:1-13 / A. Joseph Everson -- Poetic vision in Isaiah 7:18-25 / H.G.M. Williamson -- Yhwh's sovereign rule and his adoration on Mount Zion : a comparison of poetic visions in Isaiah 24-27, 52, and 66 / Willem A.M. Beuken -- The legacy of Josiah in Isaiah 40-55 / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Spectrality in the prologue to Deutero-Isaiah / Francis Landy -- The spider-poet : signs and symbols in Isaiah 41 / Hyun Chul Paul Kim -- Consider the source : a reading of the servant's identity and task in Isaiah 42:1-9 / James M. Kennedy -- "They all gather, they come to you" : history, utopia, and the reading of Isaiah 49:18-26 and 60:4-16 / Roy D. Wells -- From desolation to delight : the transformative vision of Isaiah 60-62 / Carol J. Dempsey -- The nations' journey to Zion : pilgrimage and tribute as metaphor in the book of Isaiah / Gary Stansell
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Isaiah -- Language, style -- Congresses
Bible. Isaiah fast
Subject Christianity.
Christianity.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets.
Language and languages -- Style
Christianity
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Everson, A. Joseph, 1937-
Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, 1965-
LC no. 2009011552
ISBN 9781589834262
1589834267
1589834259
9781589834255