On biblical poetry / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament.

Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry, Biblical.

Bible. Old Testament--Language, style.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 575 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 "Verse, Properly So Called": The Line in Biblical Poetry 14

Terminology 20

Manuscript Evidence for the Line 29

The "Verse Line" in Oral Poetry 42

The Line from the Other's Perspective 57

Internal Evidence for the Line 67

2 The Free Rhythms of Biblical Hebrew Poetry 95

Through Whitman's Eyes 95

Biblical Hebrew Poetry Is Not Metrical 99

The Shape of Poetic Rhythm 103

Orality, Song, and Music 114

The Free Rhythms of Biblical Poetry 120

3 The Idea of Lyric Poetry in the Bible 178

The Hebrew Lyric 178

Lyric in extenso: Probing (Some) Possibilities in the Song 214

Beyond Lyric: Toward a Richer Understanding of (Other) Biblical Poems 226

4 An Informing Orality: Biblical Poetic Style 233

Some Preliminary Points of Orientation 233

Prob(lematiz)ing the Question of Hebrew Narrative Poetry 236

Nonnarrative Oral Poetry, Or: Orality Poeticized Otherwise 254

Signs of (Nonnarrative) Orality in Biblical Poetry 260

Emergent Textuality 298

5 The Way of Poetry in Psalm 133 326

I 327

II 330

III 341

IV 342.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199766901

0199766908

OCLC:

893669005