Charting New Paths in Modern-Critical Exegesis: An Agrarian-Rhetorical Analysis of Isaiah 5
Following the work of Ellen Davis in her 2009 volume Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, this essay identifies an "agrarian hermeneutic" as an important resource for addressing current impasses in modern-critical exegesis. A close examination of Isaiah 5...
| Published in: | Biblical interpretation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Jesaja 5
/ Agriculture
/ Hermeneutics
/ Rhetoric
/ Theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B rhetorical analysis B agrarian hermeneutics B Bible. Jesaja 5 B Isaiah |
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| Summary: | Following the work of Ellen Davis in her 2009 volume Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, this essay identifies an "agrarian hermeneutic" as an important resource for addressing current impasses in modern-critical exegesis. A close examination of Isaiah 5 demonstrates how such a hermeneutic provides fresh insight into a well-worn text. Modern scholars have tended to see this passage as a chronological sequence of prophetic indictment (5:1-7), grievance (5:8-24), and military sentence (5:25-30); such interpretations typically exchange the chapter's actual language for the sociopolitical realities that are thought to stand behind it, and moreover, cannot adequately account for the text's redactional expansions. By contrast, an agrarian-rhetorical perspective on this passage identifies a theological sequence that communicates to the reader a paradigmatic vision of land-destruction and loss. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00273P05 |