Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation

by Harold Fisch

Book Overview

Do Old Testament poetry and narrative, wisdom-writing and prophecy work on us in the same way as do nonbiblical literary texts? Competent readers over the centuries have arrived at conflicting answers to this question. Some (from Longinus on) have maintained that biblical books offer examples of supreme literary art; others have passionately rejected this approach, insisting that beauty and pleasure are not the Bible's business.

Poetry with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205646
• ISBN13: 9780253205643
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"