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Uniquely considering the characteristics of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best known feature, parallelism, 'On Biblical Poetry' demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from analyses of major facets of biblical verse, as well as careful attention to prosody-rhythm, lineation, and close reading. Through a series of programmatic essays, F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is, in mostrespects, just like any other verse tradition - and thus biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems.
""Cover""; ""On Biblical Poetry""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures""; ""Introduction: Biblical Poetry beyond Parallelism""; ""Chapter 1: "Verse, Properly So Called": The Line in Biblical Poetry""; ""Terminology""; ""Manuscript Evidence for the Line""; ""The "Verse Line" in Oral Poetry""; ""Silence and Pausal Lengthening""; ""Sentence Logic""; ""Length""; ""Parallelism and Other Means of Line-Fixing""; ""The Line from the Other's Perspective""; ""Early Jewish and Patristic Commentators""
""Biblical Poetry through Medieval Jewish Eyes""""The English Renaissance""; ""Internal Evidence for the Line""; ""The Acrostic""; ""Parallelism""; ""Sound Play""; ""Syntax""; ""Grouping and the Prevailing Binarism of Biblical Poetry""; ""The Couplet""; ""The Triplet""; ""Larger Groupings""; ""Isolated Lines""; ""The Logic of Counting""; ""Chapter 2: The Free Rhythms of Biblical Hebrew Poetry""; ""Through Whitman's Eyes""; ""Biblical Hebrew Poetry Is Not Metrical""; ""The Shape of Poetic Rhythm""; ""Continuance (Prolongation)""; ""Anticipation (Expectation)""
""Repetition (Recurrence, Iteration)""""Variation""; ""Regularity (Periodicity)""; ""Salience (Prominence)""; ""Grouping (Chunking)""; ""Temporality""; ""Hierarchy""; ""Organicism""; ""Orality, Song, and Music""; ""The Free Rhythms of Biblical Poetry""; ""Syllables and Stress""; ""Line""; ""Syntax""; ""Parallelism""; ""Sounds""; ""Morphology""; ""Words""; ""Meaning""; ""Visual and Spatial Matters""; ""Chapter 3: The Idea of Lyric Poetry in the Bible""; ""The Hebrew Lyric""; ""A Sung Word""; ""Nonnarrative Poetry""; ""The Most Obviously Linguistic Creation""; ""Utterance of a Voice""
""Smallness of Scale""""Rhythm of Association""; ""Fit for Ritual""; ""A Feeling through Language""; ""The Extravagance of Lyric""; ""Lyric in extenso: Probing (Some) Possibilities in the Song""; ""Beyond Lyric: Toward a Richer Understanding of (Other) Biblical Poems""; ""Chapter 4: An Informing Orality: Biblical Poetic Style""; ""Some Preliminary Points of Orientation""; ""Prob(lematiz)ing the Question of Hebrew Narrative Poetry""; ""Nonnarrative Oral Poetry, Or: Orality Poeticized Otherwise""; ""Signs of (Nonnarrative) Orality in Biblical Poetry""; ""Performance""; ""Parallelism""
""Parallel Word Pairs and the Question of Formularity""""A Memorial Tradition""; ""Rhythm""; ""Short Lines, Simple Clauses, End-Stopping, Parataxis""; ""A Language of Orality, Aurality, and Vocality""; ""Improvisational Structure: Individual Laments""; ""Genres of (Oral) Poetic Tradition""; ""Archaisms, Figures, and Other Special Codes""; ""Myth in Biblical Poems""; ""Emergent Textuality""; ""(Some) Signs of Writtenness in Biblical Poems""; ""On the Possibility of Writing Biblical Poetry""; ""Inscribed in Vocality""; ""Chapter 5: The Way of Poetry in Psalm 133""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""
Includes bibliographical references and index.