Interpreting Hebrew Poetry

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Fortress Press, 01.12.2009 - 117 Seiten
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.

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UNDERSTANDING HEBREW POETRY
1
DEFINITION
2
PROBLEMS
3
THEORIES OF POETRY
6
POETRYPROSE CONTINUUM
13
THREE APPROACHES
14
RELATIONSHIP OF METHODS
16
PARALLELISM
21
METER
38
RHYTHM
43
POETIC STYLE
49
SIMILE
50
STANZA AND STROPHE
60
POETIC ANALYSIS
65
DEUTERONOMY 32
67
17
81

BASIC NOMENCLATURE
23
SYNONYMOUS ANTITHETIC SYNTHETIC PARALLELISM
24
NEW UNDERSTANDINGS
27
GRAMMATIC MORPHOLOGIC SEMANTIC PARALLELISM
31
SUMMARY
34
METER AND RHYTHM
37
PSALM 1
89
NOTES
99
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
112
AUTHOR INDEX
113
SCRIPTURE INDEX
115
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Seite 78 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Seite 103 - The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.
Seite 10 - ... when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.
Seite 78 - If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Seite 27 - I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.
Seite 55 - I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would mangle them.
Seite 24 - Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

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