The shape of Hebrew poetry : exploring the discourse function of linguistic parallelism in the Egyptian Hallel / by Matthew I. Ayars.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayars, Matthew I., author.

Series:

Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; Volume 70.

Studia semitica neerlandica ; Volume 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Hallel--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Hallel.

Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.

Jakobson, Roman.

Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry, Biblical.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 318 pages : Illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019].

Summary:

In The Shape of Hebrew Poetry, Matthew Ayars explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Russian Formalist Roman Jakobson's conceptulisation of linguistic parallelism to the Egpytian Hallel (Psalm 113-118). Other hebraists and biblical Hebrew poetry specialists have long noted the importance of Jakobson's theory of parallelism for poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, however, Ayars is the first to offer an application of Jakobsonian-based analysis to a poetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible.

Contents:

Part 1: Introductory matters. Introduction ; 1. A history of research of the discourse shape of biblical Hebrew poetry ; 2. Roman Jakobson, parallelism, and structural poetics ; Methodology of discourse analysis : linguistics or literary analysis?

Part 2: Discourse analysis. 4. Psalm 113 ; 5. Psalm 114 ; 6. Psalm 115 ; 7. Psalm 116 ; 8. Psalm 117 ; 9. Psalm 118 ; Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-316) and index.

ISBN:

9789004366268

9004366261

OCLC:

1048946303