Beauty and the Enigma

Know about the book -

Beauty and the Enigma is written by Francis Landy and published by A&C Black. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567533131 (ISBN 10) and 9780567533135 (ISBN 13).

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.