On Biblical Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 October 2015
- ISBN 9780199766901
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages624 pages
- Size 236x155x48 mm
- Weight 907 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 illus. 0
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Short description:
On Biblical Poetry considers the characteristics of biblical Hebrew Poetry beyond its currently best known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, careful attention to prosody, and close reading.
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Uniquely considering the characteristics of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best known feature, parallelism, On Biblical Poetry demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from analyses of major facets of biblical verse, as well as careful attention to prosody--rhythm, lineation, and the like--and close reading. Through a series of programmatic essays, F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is, in most respects, just like any other verse tradition--and thus biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems.
Using the same critical tools and kinds of guiding assumptions as traditional verse scholarship, this book also considers the historicity and cultural specificity that distinguishes the verse of the Bible. The literary and the historical, then, are in view throughout. Issues of orality, textuality, and literacy at the site of biblical poems are also probed extensively and there is a strong comparative orientation to much of the thinking in the volume.
stands out as one of the most wide-ranging monographs on Biblical Hebrew poetry published in recent years
Table of Contents:
Introduction - Biblical Poetry Beyond Parallelism
Chapter One - "Verse, Properly So Called": The Line in Biblical Poetry
Terminology
Manuscript Evidence for the Line
The "Verse Line" in Oral Poetry
The Line from the Other's Perspective
Internal Evidence for the Line
Summary
Chapter Two - The Free Rhythms of Biblical Hebrew Poetry
Through Whitman's Eyes
Biblical Hebrew Poetry is Not Metrical
The Shape of Poetic Rhythm
Orality, Song, and Music
The Free Rhythms of Biblical Poetry
Summary
Chapter Three - The Idea of Lyric Poetry in the Bible
The Hebrew Lyric
Summary
Lyric in extenso: Probing (Some) Possibilities in the Song
Beyond Lyric: Toward a Richer Understanding of (Other) Biblical Poems
Chapter Four - An Informing Orality: Biblical Poetic Style
Some Preliminary Points of Orientation
Prob(lematiz)ing the Question of Hebrew Narrative Poetry
Nonnarrative Oral Poetry, Or: Orality Poeticized Otherwise
Signs of (Nonnarrative) Orality in Biblical Poetry
Emergent Textuality
Conclusions
Chapter Five - The Way of Poetry in Psalm 133
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Closing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
