Kent Richards

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  Interpreting Hebrew Poetry

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  Editor’s Foreword

  Abbreviations

  1. Understanding Hebrew Poetry
  Definition
  Problems
  Theories Of Poetry
  Poetry-Prose Continuum
  Three Approaches
  Relationship Of Methods

  2. Parallelism
  Robert Lowth
  Basic Nomenclature
  Synonymous, Antithetic, Synthetic Parallelism
  New Understandings
  Grammatic, Morphologic, Semantic Parallelism
  Summary

  3. Meter And Rhythm
  Definitions
  Meter
  Rhythm

  4. Poetic Style
  Simile
  Stanza And Strophe

  5. Poetic Analysis
  Deuteronomy
  Isaiah 5:1-17
  Psalm 1
  Notes
  Selected Bibliography
  Author Index
  Scripture Index

  Additional Info
  Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines. But new studies of the past decade now require significant adjustments to Lowth’s analyses. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry offers an authoritative introduction to this discussion of parallelism, meter and rhythm, and poetic style. It also provides by way of example a poetic analysis of Deuteronomy 32, Isaiah 5:1-7, and Psalm 1.

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