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- catalog abstract ""Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James L. Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style. Arguing that the Bible presents a continuum of speech heightened in varying degrees by different means, Kugel sets out to describe Hebrew's high style on its own terms. He also offers a thorough history of the idea of biblical poetry, starting with Philo of Alexandria and Josephus in the first century C.E. and charting its development through the Church Fathers, medieval Jewish writers, the Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance, and on into modern times. The story of how each age understood the nature of biblical poetry, Kugel concludes, is a key to understanding the Bible's place in the history of Western thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10897369.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James L. Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style. Arguing that the Bible presents a continuum of speech heightened in varying degrees by different means, Kugel sets out to describe Hebrew's high style on its own terms. He also offers a thorough history of the idea of biblical poetry, starting with Philo of Alexandria and Josephus in the first century C.E. and charting its development through the Church Fathers, medieval Jewish writers, the Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance, and on into modern times. The story of how each age understood the nature of biblical poetry, Kugel concludes, is a key to understanding the Bible's place in the history of Western thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The parallelistic line -- Parallelism -- Sampling of relationships between A and B -- Sharpness -- Lowth's categories -- Differentiation -- Parallelism outside the Bible -- Fixed pairs and repetitive parallelism in Ugaritic -- The distribution reading -- "Compensation" and "ballasting" -- The essence of parallelism".
- catalog description "2. Poetry and prose -- Parallelism and poetic style in Hebrew -- The concept of biblical "poetry" -- The metrical hypothesis -- Where prose and poetry meet -- A new approach -- Terseness and ellipsis -- Biblical style".
- catalog description "3. Rabbinic exegesis and the "forgetting" of parallelism -- Gray's paradox -- Rabbinic handling of parallelism -- Omnisignificance and the mind of midrash -- The te'amim -- The disappearance of antiphony -- Stichography -- The rise of poetry".
- catalog description "4. Biblical poetry and the church -- Allegory -- Philo and Josephus -- The Greek Fathers and poetry -- Origen, Eusebius, Hilary, and Ambrose -- Jerome -- The figurative reading of parallelism -- Augustine -- Later writers".
- catalog description "5. The meter of biblical songs -- A convergence -- Medieval Jewish exegesis -- The secrets of Hebrew song -- Azariah dei Rossi".
- catalog description "6. "What is the system of Hebrew poetry?" -- An ancient and oriental book -- The biblical origin of poetry -- Inspiration in renaissance England -- Tropes and figures and the Clavis Scripturae Sacrae -- Rhyme in the Bible -- The demise of Jerome's metrical theories and the rise of vernacular models -- Christian Schoettgen -- De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum -- Lowth's legacy".
- catalog description "7. A metrical afterword -- Sharpness lives: the gist of M. L. Malbim -- Recent metrical ideas -- A cautionary summary -- The lesson of history -- Appendix A: The persistence of parallelism -- Appendix B: On syntax and style, with some reflections on M. P. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xi, 339 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801859441 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engheb".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "221.4/4 21".
- catalog subject "BS1405.2 .K83 1998".
- catalog subject "Bible. Psalms Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.".
- catalog subject "Hebrew language Parallelism.".
- catalog subject "Hebrew poetry, Biblical History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The parallelistic line -- Parallelism -- Sampling of relationships between A and B -- Sharpness -- Lowth's categories -- Differentiation -- Parallelism outside the Bible -- Fixed pairs and repetitive parallelism in Ugaritic -- The distribution reading -- "Compensation" and "ballasting" -- The essence of parallelism".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. Poetry and prose -- Parallelism and poetic style in Hebrew -- The concept of biblical "poetry" -- The metrical hypothesis -- Where prose and poetry meet -- A new approach -- Terseness and ellipsis -- Biblical style".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Rabbinic exegesis and the "forgetting" of parallelism -- Gray's paradox -- Rabbinic handling of parallelism -- Omnisignificance and the mind of midrash -- The te'amim -- The disappearance of antiphony -- Stichography -- The rise of poetry".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Biblical poetry and the church -- Allegory -- Philo and Josephus -- The Greek Fathers and poetry -- Origen, Eusebius, Hilary, and Ambrose -- Jerome -- The figurative reading of parallelism -- Augustine -- Later writers".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. The meter of biblical songs -- A convergence -- Medieval Jewish exegesis -- The secrets of Hebrew song -- Azariah dei Rossi".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. "What is the system of Hebrew poetry?" -- An ancient and oriental book -- The biblical origin of poetry -- Inspiration in renaissance England -- Tropes and figures and the Clavis Scripturae Sacrae -- Rhyme in the Bible -- The demise of Jerome's metrical theories and the rise of vernacular models -- Christian Schoettgen -- De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum -- Lowth's legacy".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. A metrical afterword -- Sharpness lives: the gist of M. L. Malbim -- Recent metrical ideas -- A cautionary summary -- The lesson of history -- Appendix A: The persistence of parallelism -- Appendix B: On syntax and style, with some reflections on M. P. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure.".
- catalog title "The idea of biblical poetry : parallelism and its history / James L. Kugel.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".