The Diseased King and the Diseased City (Isaiah 36 39) as a Reader-Oriented Link between Isaiah 1-39 and Isaiah 40-66

Wieringen, A.L.H.M. van; Woude, A. van der

doi:10.1163/9789004194243_007

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Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah

Landy

2023

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The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the eighth and sixth centuries bce. ‘Utopia, Catastrophe, and Poetry in the Book of Isaiah’ is about the response of poetry to catastrophe and the hope for a new and perfect world on the other side. It traces two parallel developments: the displacement of the Davidic promise onto the Persian Empire, Israel, and the prophet himself; and the transition from exclusively male images of the deity to the matching of male and female prototypes, whereby YHWH takes the place of the warrior goddess. This process is related to the loss of power and of all state institutions, particularly the sacred monarchy and temple. The book consists of close readings of individual passages, commencing with ch. 1 and the problems of beginning, and ending with Deutero-Isaiah, composed subsequent to the Babylonian exile. It is a literary reading and differs from conventional historical and theological interpretations through its focus on poetic language and metaphor.

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