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LANDY, F., Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah. Oxford University Press, 2023. 512p. Hardback. This innovative and beautifully written monograph delves deep into the poetic vision of the book of Isaiah. Landy's powerful prose creates a gallery of evocative and conflicting images, as he lays bare the inherently dialectic character of the book. All its central characters - God, Jerusalem, the Davidic heir, even death itself - are unstable entities that evolve and metamorphose throughout the book, yet ultimately return to their earlier state. God, Isaiah's male protagonist is also a gender-fluid deity, Jerusalem, his female counterpart, is simultaneously an attractive Edenic beauty and a soiled object of abhorrence, and the prophet turns out to be a liminal figure who negotiates between the two. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Professor in Old Testament Exegesis, ALT School of Theology Jun 2023 |a 14/06/2023 (Publisher's information). € 163.05 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780198856696