This collection aims to provide for Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc not only an account and evaluation of their life and work, but also an understanding of the wider intellectual context of their scholarship and the reception and influence of their work ever since.
This collection aims to provide for Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc not only an account and evaluation of their life and work, but also an understanding of the wider intellectual context of their scholarship and the reception and influence of their work ever since.
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 subv…