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Author Poulsen, Frederik, author.

Title The black hole in Isaiah : a study of exile as a literary theme / Frederik Poulsen.

Publication Info. Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 475.)
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Series Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 125
Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 125.
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.
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Subject Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, Narrative.
Bible. Isaiah.
Bible. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Isaiah.
Jews -- History -- Babylonian captivity, 598 B.C.-515 B.C.
Jews.
Jews in Babylonian captivity (598 - 515 B.C.)
Chronological Term 598-515 B.C.
Genre/Form Academic Dissertation.
Academic theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Academic theses.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Other Form: Print version: 3161568621 9783161568626 (DLC) 2018373617
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316156863X (electronic bk)
3161568621
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