Undisclosed Speech: Patterns of Communication in the Book of Isaiah

What it is about

An exegetical study of the "command not to comprehend" (Isa 6:9–10). Against the usual reading (a clear prophet facing a stubborn people), Liss argues that First Isaiah builds a deliberate structure of non-communication: the prophet speaks through metaphors that estrange (the rock of refuge turned stumbling stone), through quotations of his opponents set against God's word, and through fictive scenes, so that the message is meant to be understood only later, by readers of the written tradition. She contrasts this with Neo-Assyrian oracles, whose god promises clear, binding support to the king. The last part discusses implied author and implied reader in the transmission of the book.

Ideas

I1. Quoted opponents: a prophet's speech that contains a quotation of the people ("you said: …") holds two voices; the speech reader should open an embedded quote with its own speaker rather than attribute it to the prophet.

Nothing else for Mova at present: the paper is literary-theological, on Isaiah (outside the Torah trees), and gives no grammatical rule or measure.

For Mova

I1 applies to quote nesting in tools/macula/src/prag.rs (the inner-frame rule) and to 09-discourse.md §4 (direct speech and its frames); in the Torah the same pattern occurs in Moses' speeches in Deuteronomy that quote the people.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5508/jhs.2002.v4.a4

@article{liss2003undisclosed,
  title = {{Undisclosed Speech: Patterns of Communication in the Book of Isaiah}},
  author = {Liss, Hanna},
  journal = {Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 4},
  year = {2003},
  doi = {10.5508/jhs.2002.v4.a4},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs.2002.v4.a4}
}

References

7 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

Vol. II: Elements of Logic, ed. by Ch. Hartshorne u. P. Weiss, Cambridge/Mass. 2 1960, 2.274); see also Peirce, Semiotische Schriften, Vol. 1, ed. by Ch. Kloesel u. H. Pape, Frankfurt/M. 1986, p. 64.72ff. find
See Aichele, G., Sign, Text, Scripture. Semiotics and the Bible, Sheffield 1997, esp. P. 62ff.; Eco, U., Lector in fabula. Die Mitarbeit der Interpretation in erzählenden Texten, München 1998, p. 31ff.; Eco, Semiotik 76ff.; Schönrich, G., Zeichenhandeln. Untersuchungen zum Begriff einer semiotischen Vernunft im Ausgang von Ch. S. Peirce, Frankfurt/M. 1990, p. 96ff. find
See Morris, Ch. W., Grundlagen der Zeichentheorie. Ästhetik der Zeichentheorie. Mit einem Nachwort v. F. Knilli, Frankfurt/M. 1988, p. 20ff.; ibid., Zeichen, Sprache und Verhalten. Mit einer Einführung von K.-O. find
Apel, Düsseldorf 1973, p. 77ff. find
See e.g. Barth, H., Die Jesaja-Worte in der Josiazeit. Israel und Assur als Thema einer produktiven Neuinterpretation der Jesajaüberlieferung, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1977, p. 38ff.; Hayes - Irvine 123; Irvine, St. A., Isaiah, Ahaz, and the Syro-Ephraimitic Crisis, Atlanta 1990, p. 142ff.; Irvine, Isaiah’s She’ar-Yashub and the Davidic House, in: BZ NF 37, 1993, 78-88, p. 79; Steck, O. H., Bemerkungen zu Jes 6, in: ibid., Wahrnehmungen Gottes im Alten Testament. Ges. find
Studien, München 1982, p. 149-170, 163f. incl. note 30. find
See already the commentary by Abravanel ad loc. (Don Yizchaq Abravanel, Perush ‘al Nevi’im Acharonim, Pesaro 1511/12, Repr. Jerusalem - Tel Aviv 1976, ad. Loc. p. 62b.) find

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