Poetry with a Purpose - Biblical Poetics and Interpretation

Equally at home in biblical studies and in general literature and theory, the author has produced a highly original work of unusual range and scholarship.

About the author

Harold Fisch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Isreal, is translator of the Korean Jerusalem Bible and author of numerous books and articles, including Hamlet and the World and A Remembered Future.

Summary

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. This title argues that, paradoxically, both views are right.

Product details

• Authors: Harold Fisch, Fisch Harold, Fisch Harold
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1988
• EAN: 9780253205643
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20564-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Series: Indiana Studies in Biblical Li; Indiana Studies in Biblical Li; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works