Rate My Professor J. Blake Couey

Couey is the author of Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2015). He co-edited Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Elaine T. James. His publications include "The Disabled Body Politic in Isaiah 3:1, 8" in the Journal of Biblical Literature 133 (2014): 95-109; "Evoking and Evading: The Poetic Presentation of the Moabite Catastrophe in Isaiah 15–16" in Concerning the Nations (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015); "Haggai" in Fortress Commentary on the Bible (Fortress, 2014); and "Amos 7:10–17 and Royal Attitudes toward Prophecy in the Ancient Near East" in Vetus Testamentum 58 (2008). He is currently working on a commentary on Isaiah 1-39. Couey contributes to public scholarship through platforms like Working Preacher and Bible Odyssey and participates in events such as faculty shop talks and the Nobel Conference at Gustavus.