The Implied Reader in Isaiah 6-12 (Hardcover)

This monograph contains an analysis of the text-internal reader in Isaiah 6-12. For that purpose, two modern literary methods are incorporated in Old Testament Exegesis. First, the research makes use of "text-linguistics," so it is explicitly based on the idiom of Biblical Hebrew. Next, the "domain analysis" provides a means of outlining communicative situations between "characters, implied author" and "implied reader," in accordance with various diagrams. This research shows that the "implied reader" is involved in the communication evoked by the text. Not only is the "implied reader" manipulated by the composition of Isa 6-12 as a whole, but he or she is also directly addressed by the "implied author," Moreover, he or she is related to the points in time, varying from standing at a certain distance to being involved in the now-moment.