Classical Hebrew Poetry A Guide to Its Techniques

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-30
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T & T Clark
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Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Abbreviations xi
Short Titles of Frequently Mentioned Works xvii
Festschriften xix
Introduction
Scope and aims
1(2)
Stylistics and Hebrew poetry
3(1)
Poetic Texts in Other Semitic Languages
Introduction
4(1)
Ugaritic Poetry
5(2)
Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material
7(4)
Analysing Hebrew Poetry: Notes on Method
Terminology
11(4)
Method
15(15)
Function in poetry
30(5)
Archaisms
35(4)
Dating
39(2)
Textual criticism
41(3)
Prose or poetry?
44(18)
Closure: notes on theory
62(4)
The Hebrew Poet in Action
Oral poetry
66(1)
Oral poetry: theory
67(7)
Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry
74(2)
Ancient Hebrew oral poetry
76(4)
Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew
80(3)
Epic poetry in Hebrew?
83(4)
Metre
What is metre?
87(4)
Metre in ancient Semitic languages
91(6)
The stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre
97(6)
Other theories: survey and critique
103(7)
Anacrusis
110(1)
Functions of metre
111(3)
Parallelism
Introductory
114(9)
Gender-matched parallelism
123(5)
Parallel word-pairs
128(16)
Number parallelism
144(6)
Staircase parallelism
150(6)
Other types of parallelism
156(4)
Stanza and Strophe
The stanza
160(8)
Strophic patterns: introduction
168(1)
The monocolon
168(6)
The abc//bc couplet
174(3)
The tricolon
177(8)
Strophic patterns: the quatrain
185(2)
Strophic patterns: the pentacolon
187(1)
Higher strophic units
188(2)
Acrostics and related patterns
190(11)
Verse-Patterns
Introduction
201(1)
Chiasmus and chiastic patterns
201(7)
The terrace pattern (anadiplosis and sorites)
208(6)
The pivot pattern
214(8)
Sound in Hebrew Poetry
General
222(1)
Assonance
222(3)
Alliteration
225(4)
Rhyme
229(155)
Closing Comments
384(2)
INDEXES
Index of subjects
386(22)
Index of numerical references
408(1)
Index of Biblical references
409(22)
Index of Hebrew words
431(4)
Index of Hebrew word-pairs
435(2)
Index of Ugaritic texts
437(4)
Index of Ugaritic words
441(2)
Index of Ugaritic word-pairs
443(1)
Index of Akkadian texts
443(2)
Index of Akkadian words
445(1)
Index of other texts
446(1)
Index of authors cited
447(9)
Supplementary Bibliography 456(5)
Further Additions and Corrections to the Second Edition 461

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