| Title: Beauty and the Enigma By: Francis Landy Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 432 Vendor: Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: 2001 | Dimensions: 9.54 X 6.44 X 1.19 (inches) Weight: 1 pound 12 ounces ISBN: 1841271470 ISBN-13: 9781841271477 Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Stock No: WW271477 |
This book is a collection of Landy's studies on the poetics of the Hebrew Bible. The Song of Songs is featured alongside the prophetic voices of Amos, Hosea and Isaiah, and essays on the Binding of Isaac and on the book of Ruth. Throughout, the emphasis throughout is on the subversiveness, richness and ambiguity of the text, but above all its (often enigmatic) beauty. The thread of psychoanalysis and its metaphorical technique draws together this collection from one of the Bible's most sensitive and distinctive literary critics.
