Barbara Bakke Kaiser
Reading Prophetic Poetry
- Pickwick Publications
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 268 Seiten
- ISBN 9781532662911
This volume seeks to guide students in religious or literary studies or other interested readers toward understanding and appreciation of biblical prophetic poetry. Each of the three sections of the book includes a chapter examining one of the literary features with brief examples from prophetic texts, followed by another chapter of applied criticism of a full prophetic poem (Joel 2 on parallelism, Jeremiah 4 on voice, and Isaiah 24 on design). Among the distinct features of the book are diagrams of parallel lines, promoting two-dimensional, "binocular" reading of the poems. Of all the literature of the Bible, prophetic poetry has probably been least accessible to the
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