Idea of Biblical Poetry Parallelism and Its History

Name: Idea of Biblical Poetry Parallelism and Its History
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ISBN: 9780801859441

ISBN-10: 0801859441

ISBN-13: 9780801859441

Edition: Reprint

Authors: James Kugel

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Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style. Arguing that the Bible presents a continuum of speech heightened in varying degrees by different means, Kugel sets out to describe Hebrew's high style on its own terms. He also offers a thorough history of the idea of biblical poetry, starting with Philo of Alexandria and Josephus in the first…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Bibliographical Abbreviations



The Parallelistic Line



Poetry and Prose



Rabbinic Exegesis and the "Forgetting" of Parallelism



Biblical Poetry and the Church



The Meter of Biblical Songs



"What Is the System of Hebrew Poetry?"



A Metrical Afterword



The Persistence of Parallelism



On Syntax and Style, with Some Reflections on M. P. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure


General Index


Scriptural Index