Yosefa Raz, The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Exodus 15:11 has always been awkward.Based on a talk given at the book event at Haifa University, May 28th 2024.
... Yosefa charts the modernist reading traditions of “strong prophecy” in science and in poetry, and she also sketches some traditions for herself as a reader for “weak prophecy.” In this effort, she finds in some poetry a language of “pure sound fragmented and broken by history. This language of the limp and the wound,” in the painful words of Nourbese Philip, which Yosefa reads so beautifully. ...
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