Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew VerseBefore, during and after the preparation of Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques, Wilfred Watson published several articles on Hebrew poetry in a wide range of periodicals. The present volume collects together the most significant of these writings, including a chapter from a book on chiasmus, as well as a few unpublished items. After an opening survey of current work on Hebrew verse the articles cover the following topics: parallelism (including half-line parallelism, previously almost unnoticed), antithesis, word pairs, chiasmus, figurative language and introductions to speech in verse. The last section deals with structural devices and a folktale motif in narrative verse, hyperbole, apostrophe and alliteration. Previously unpublished items are on the contribution of ethnopoetics, from the study of Native American literature to Hebrew narrative verse (a new topic in biblical studies), parallelism in the Song of Songs and a metaphor in Jeremiah. This anthology is intended as a companion volume to Classical Hebrew Poetry. It includes additions and corrections to that book and there are also several indices. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 HALFLINE INTERNAL PARALLELISM | 104 |
Chapter 4 GENDERMATCHED PARALLELISM | 192 |
Chapter 5 OTHER TYPES OF PARALLELISM | 240 |
Chapter 8 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | 392 |
Chapter 9 PRELUDES TO SPEECH | 414 |
Chapter 10 PATTERNS AND RHETORICAL DEVICES | 431 |
Index of Old Testament Texts | 479 |
Index of Ancient Texts | 504 |
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Additions and Corrections to Classical Hebrew Poetry Second Edition | 528 |
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acrostic Ahiqar Akkadian anacrusis ancient Near Eastern Aramaic Avishur Baal Biblical Hebrew Biblical Poetry bicolon Canaanite Canaanite Myths Cant chiasmus chiastic pattern cited Classical Hebrew Classical Hebrew Poetry colon common couplet Dahood Deut device discussed Epic Epic of Gilgamesh example expression EYES Ezek feminine formula function gender gender-matched Gilgamesh half-line heart Hebrew Poetry Hebrew Verse Incantations Israel J.C. de Moor Joel Kevelaer lines with IP Loretz Margalit masculine meaning merismus Mesopotamia Mitos y leyendas narrative Neukirchen-Vluyn Neukirchener Verlag Note noun occurs Olmo Lete oral pair Pardee passages poem poetic Pontifical Biblical Institute prose Prov Proverbs Psalms reference repetition Semitic sequence similes Song stanza strophe Structure Šurpu tablet Testament Text and translation tradition tricolon Ugaritic Ugaritic and Hebrew Ugaritic poetry Ugaritic verse verb W.G. Lambert Wisdom Literature word word-pair Yahweh yqtl