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On Biblical Poetry

  • Hardback
  • 608 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.4 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of biblical literature

Reveals the richness of biblical poetry's interpretations

You will enhance your understanding of biblical texts

Discover the depth of biblical Hebrew poetry through insightful essays.

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.
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  • Title

    On Biblical Poetry

  • Author

    Allsopp F. W. Dobbs

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 2015

  • Weight

    908g

  • Page Count

    608

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199766901

  • ISBN-10

    0199766908

  • Eden Code

    4324276

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