Beauty and the Enigma

by Francis Landy

This book is a collection of Landy's studies on the poetics of the Hebrew Bible. The Song of Songs is featured alongside the prophetic voices of Amos, Hosea and Isaiah, and essays on the Binding of Isaac and on the book of Ruth. Throughout, the emphasis throughout is on the subversiveness, richness and ambiguity of the text, but above all its (often enigmatic) beauty. The thread of psychoanalysis and its metaphorical technique draws together this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841271470
• ISBN13: 9781841271477
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"