Yosefa Raz

The Poetics of Prophecy

Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009366298
• ISBN-10: 1009366297
• Artikelnr.: 74444481

Autorenporträt

Yosefa Raz is teaches in the department of English Literature at the University of Haifa, where she specializes the study of the Bible and its reception, poetry and poetics, and Romantic and contemporary poetry. She is also a poet and translator, with work recently published in The Brooklyn Rail, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Prophetic Strength and Weakness
1. Seraphic Choirs and Stuttering Prophets: Symmetry, Disorder, and the Invention of the Literary Bible
2. Walking through William Blake's Irregular Bible
3. The Myth of Primordial Orality and the Disfigured Face of Written Prophecy
4. Ahad Ha'am's Mask of Moses and the Secularization of Prophetic Power
5. Haim Nahman Bialik: The National Poet's Cup of Sorrows
Afterword: An Untuning.