Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 475.) |
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text file |
Series |
Forschungen zum Alten Testament,
0940-4155 ;
125
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Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 125.
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Thesis |
Dissertation University of Copenhagen, 2018. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-436) and indexes. |
Contents |
Entering the black hole -- Anticipating exile: Oracles of doom -- Embodying exile: Typological figures -- Slavery and captivity: Political and spatial images -- Scattering and dispersion: Geographical images -- Blindness and disorientation: Cognitive images -- Abandonment and bereavement: Social images. |
Summary |
Publisher's description: Frederik Poulsen investigates exile as a literary and theological theme in the book of Isaiah. While other biblical writings explicitly depict the destruction of Jerusalem and the inhabitants' deportation to Babylon in the early sixth century BCE, Isaiah is apparently silent. At the center of the book where readers would expect to find an account of these traumatic and defining events, there is just a strange gap. The author argues that the curious break between chapters 39 and 40 indicates an anti-climax - a destroyed and forsaken Jerusalem - and that several passages stress its importance by either pointing forward to it or looking back at it. Frederik Poulsen demonstrates that the exile in Isaiah hides itself as a "black hole" at the center of the book and thereby has a decisive influence on the literary structure, poetic imagery, and theological message of this prophetic scroll. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, Narrative.
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Bible. Isaiah. |
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Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Isaiah. |
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Jews -- History -- Babylonian captivity, 598 B.C.-515 B.C.
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Jews. |
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Jews in Babylonian captivity (598 - 515 B.C.) |
Chronological Term |
598-515 B.C. |
Genre/Form |
Academic Dissertation.
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Academic theses.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Academic theses.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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Other Form: |
Print version: 3161568621 9783161568626 (DLC) 2018373617 |
ISBN |
9783161568633 (electronic bk) |
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316156863X (electronic bk) |
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3161568621 |
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9783161568626 |
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