Directions In Biblical Hebrew Poetry

Author : Elaine R. Follis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567504975

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Directions in Biblical Hebrew Poetry by Elaine R. Follis Pdf

This collection of original papers reflects the intensity of current interest in the poetry of the OT, and amply demonstrates the diversity of rewarding approaches now available. Some of these studies are landmarks, and all are stimulating for further research.

Author : David L. Petersen
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451412525

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Interpreting Hebrew Poetry by David L. Petersen Pdf

Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines. But new studies of the past decade now require significant adjustments to Lowth's analyses. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry offers an authoritative introduction to this discussion of parallelism, meter and rhythm, and poetic style. It also provides by way of example a poetic analysis of Deuteronomy 32, Isaiah 5:1-7, and Psalm 1.

Author : Donald Broadribb
Publisher : Donald Broadribb
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780646250854

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An Attempt to Delineate the Characteristic Structure of Classical (Biblical) Hebrew Poetry by Donald Broadribb Pdf

Author : Samuel T. S. Goh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532601910

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The Basics of Hebrew Poetry by Samuel T. S. Goh Pdf

Almost 75 percent of the Old Testament is made up of poetic passages, yet for many readers (lay Christians, even seminary students and pastors), biblical poetic passages remain the greatest challenge. Being unfamiliar with poetry in general and biblical poetry in particular, their reading and preaching are limited to selected poetic passages. This in turn limits their understanding of God's word. To help readers overcome these problems, the first four chapters of this book aim to get them familiarized with the literary techniques of biblical poets. To demonstrate how the techniques work to bring across the biblical theological message, the last three chapters offer poetic analyses of three passages of different kinds. In the process, we hope to draw attention to the beauty of the Hebrew poetic art and to the creative skill of biblical poets' versification. The ultimate aim, however, is to help readers discover the rich message of the Bible.

Author : Michael Patrick O'Connor
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0931464021

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Hebrew Verse Structure by Michael Patrick O'Connor Pdf

In this extensive and eclectic reconsideration of classical Hebrew poetics, O'Connor evaluates the assumptions that have guided scholars for more than two hundred years. The result is "a great leap forward in the analysis and interpretation of early Hebrew poetry." (David Noel Freedman)

Author : George B. Gray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725202122

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The Forms of Hebrew Poetry by George B. Gray Pdf

Gray refined the classifications offered up by Lowth in his 'Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews'. Gray developed ingenious readings of texts which had been previously been seen as corrupt and readable only with major emendations. Gray deduced principles of Semitic poetry which allowed these texts to be sensibly read without emendation.

Author : Wilfred G. E. Watson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567434166

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Classical Hebrew Poetry by Wilfred G. E. Watson Pdf

In spite of debatable issues, such as metre, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and appreciation of Hebrew verse. Topics include oral poetry, metre, parallelism and forms of the strophe and stanza. Sound patterns and imagery are also discussed. A lengthy chapter sets out a whole range of other poetic devices and the book closes with a set of worked examples of Hebrew poetry. Throughout, other ancient Semitic verse has been used for comparison and the principles of modern literary criticism have been applied.

Author : Susan E. Gillingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032421698

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The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible by Susan E. Gillingham Pdf

This book concentrates on the poetry of the Hebrew Bible. After considering the essential elements of Hebrew verse, it looks at the most familiar poems - the Psalms, the Song of Solomon, and the poetry in Job and Proverbs - as well as at less familiar examples of poems which by contrast are embedded in narrative such as war poetry, harvest hymns, elegies, prayers of protest, and thanksgiving songs.

Author : Lynell Zogbo,Ernst R. Wendland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121551324

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Hebrew Poetry in the Bible by Lynell Zogbo,Ernst R. Wendland Pdf

Author : Eric D. Reymond
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781589835375

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New Idioms Within Old by Eric D. Reymond Pdf

This volume explores the language and poetic structure of the seven non-Masoretic poems preserved in the Dead Sea Scroll labeled 11Q5 or 11QPsa. It presents fresh readings of the Hebrew poems, which were last studied intensively almost fifty years ago, stressing their structural and conceptual coherence and incorporating insights gained from the scholarship of recent decades. Each chapter addresses a single poem and describes its poetic structure, including its use of parallelism and allusion to scripture, as well as specific problems related to the poem's interpretation. In addition, the book considers these poems in relation to what they reveal about the development of Hebrew poetry in the late Second Temple period.

Author : Nicholas P. Lunn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529594

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Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry by Nicholas P. Lunn Pdf

This study tackles the neglected subject of word order in biblical Hebrew poetry. The fact that the order of clause constituents frequently differs from that found in prose has often been noted, but no systematic attempt has been offered by way of explanation. Here two separate factors are taken into consideration, that of purely poetic variation (defamiliarisation), and that of pragmatic markedness. The former is common to the poetic genre. In the latter case there is a discernible significance in the positioning of the words that has implications with respect to the matters of topic and focus. Using Lambrecht's theory of information structure and building on the insights of previous studies in biblical Hebrew narrative the present volume shows that marked topic and focus structures in Old Testament poetry are identical to those found in prose and are distinguishable from defamiliarised word order by means of the environment in which the latter is found. Here the common phenomenon of parallelism is seen to be an important factor in providing a secondary line in which defamiliarisation may freely occur. This work offers a new approach to the poetry of the Old Testament that will be an aid towards more accurate translation, exegesis, and discourse analysis of poetic texts.

Author : Pieter Van Der Lugt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004148390

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Cantos And Strophes in Biblical Hebrew Poetry by Pieter Van Der Lugt Pdf

A quantitative structural approach also helps to identify the focal message of the poems."--Jacket.

Author : Matthew Ian Ayars
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004366275

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The Shape of Hebrew Poetry by Matthew Ian Ayars Pdf

The Shape of Hebrew Poetry explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Roman Jakobson's theory of linguistic parallelism in poetry to the Egyptian Hallel (Psalm 113–118).

Author : Donald R. Vance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110225468

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The Question of Meter in Biblical Hebrew Poetry by Donald R. Vance Pdf

In a revision of his 1997 doctoral thesis for the Iliff School of Theology, Vance (biblical languages and literature, Oral Roberts U.) contributes to the long debate about the meter of poetry in the Bible and what if any relationship it has to classical Hebrew poetry as it is found in the Hebrew Bible. He argues that none of the metrical theories proposed has been thoroughly tested against the entire corpus of Hebrew poetic texts, relying instead on sampling and extrapolation. He reviews those theories, beginning with that of Philo of Alexandria, by categories such as quantitative, accentual, and syllabic. Then he analyzes the meter of selected texts, particularly from Lamentations and Psalms. He indexes only ancient and modern authors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Wilfred G. E. Watson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567083888

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Classical Hebrew Poetry by Wilfred G. E. Watson Pdf

In spite of debatable issues, such as metre, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and appreciation of Hebrew verse. Topics include oral poetry, metre, parallelism and forms of the strophe and stanza. Sound patterns and imagery are also discussed. A lengthy chapter sets out a whole range of other poetic devices and the book closes with a set of worked examples of Hebrew poetry. Throughout, other ancient Semitic verse has been used for comparison and the principles of modern literary criticism have been applied.