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Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse
About this book
Before, 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collects together the most significant of these writings, including a chapter from a book on chiasmus, as well as a few unpublished items.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 Previously unpublished items are on the contribution of ethnopoetics, from the study of Native American literature to Hebrew narrative verse (a new topic in biblical studies),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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 2 CONVENTIONS OF STYLE
- Chapter 3 HALF-LINE (INTERNAL) PARALLELISM
- Chapter 4 GENDER-MATCHED PARALLELISM
- Chapter 5 OTHER TYPES OF PARALLELISM
- Chapter 6 WORD-PAIRS
- Chapter 7 CHIASMUS
- Chapter 8 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- Chapter 9 PRELUDES TO SPEECH
- Chapter 10 PATTERNS AND RHETORICAL DEVICES
- Index of Old Testament Texts
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Authors
- Additions and Corrections to Classical Hebrew Poetry (Second Edition)