The Shape of Hebrew Poetry
Author | : Matthew Ian Ayars |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004366275 |
ISBN-13 | : 900436627X |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Shape of Hebrew Poetry by : Matthew Ian Ayars
Download or read book The Shape of Hebrew Poetry written by Matthew Ian Ayars and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape of Hebrew Poetry explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Roman Jakobson's theory of linguistic parallelism in poetry to the Egyptian Hallel (Psalm 113–118).