Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms

ISBN-13: 9781138235625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Jacqueline Vayntrub

Opis

Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms changes the debate by showing how biblical poetry has worked as a mirror, reflecting each era’s own self-image of verbal art.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Proverbs and Poetry to Prose: The Bible’s Own "Great Divide"; Chapter 2. The Idea of Mashal: Scholarship’s Quest for the Essence of Poetry; Chapter 3. Wisdom, Orality, and Recovering Native Poetics; Chapter 4. The Speech Performance Frame: The Case of Balaam’s Speeches; Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24; Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Writings Index; Subject Index