Secure Your Copy Irony In The Old Testament Conceived By Edwin M. Good Compiled As Multimedia Book

Edwin Good is a very careful and learned scholar who offers an interesting foray into irony in the Old Testament Scriptures, The book reveals a true literary sensitivity and profound familiarity with the text, but overall, I was underwhelmed, Good begins by defining and identifying irony by exploring ancient Greek sources and then transitions to more modern literature, After these two chapters, he then offers some individual chapters that approach irony in books like Jonah, Isaiah, Genesis, and Ecclesiastes, To the reader who has never thought about the subject of irony, nor applied it to reading the Old Testament, this book will likely be a rich introduction, However, if you are looking for monographlike, indepth discussion of the topic, I would suggest looking elsewhere, .