Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah

The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy''s book tells the story of the poetic response to catastrophe, and the hope for a new and perfect world on the other side. The study traces two parallel devel...