Blake Couey (Religion)

Blake Couey presented an invited paper, “Poetry and Redaction in the Book of Isaiah,” at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The paper will form the basis for a book chapter in a forthcoming volume on the formation of the Book of Isaiah, to be published with Mohr Siebeck. He also co-presented an invited paper, “What Kind of Poets Were the Prophets? Prophetic Poetry and Lyric,” at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The paper was co-presented with Elaine James of St. Catherine University. Couey also published a chapter in The Bible and Disability: A Commentary (Baylor University Press, 2017). The Bible and Disability: A Commentary is the latest book in Baylor University Press’s Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability series. Couey’s chapter covers the prophetic books from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, critically examining their portrayals of and discourse about disability.