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1 online resource (538 pages) |
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Studies in Bible and Early Christianity ; v. 46 |
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Studies in the Bible and early Christianity.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Defining Meter; Introduction; Defining Meter; Meter and Rhythm; Phonological Event; Abstract Pattern as Contract; Arrangement by Line with Regularity; Preposed Definition of Meter; Chapter 2: The Categorization fo Metrical Theories for Classical Hebrew Poetry; Introduction; Quantitative; Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 B.C. -- ca. A.D. 45); Josephus (A.D. 37-100); Origen (A.D. 184-254); Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (A.D. 264-340); Pseudo-Justin Martyr (Fourth Century A.D.); Jerome (A.D. 331-420) |
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Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrene (A.D. 386-458); Isadore of Seville (ca. A.D. 580-636); Samuel Archivolti (1515-1611); Franciscus Gomarus (1563-1641); Marcus Meibomius (1630-1711); Sir William Jones (1746-1794); Conrad Gottlob Anton (1770); Egbert Jan Greve (1754-1811); Joachim Bellermann (1813); Summary; Accentual; Ernst Heinrich Meier (1813-1866); Julius Ley (1822-1901); Karl Ferdinand Reinhardt Budde (1850-1935); Eduard Sievers (1850-1932); William Henry Cobb (1846-1923); George Buchanan Gray (1865-1922); Theodore Henry Robinson (1881-?) |
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Sigmund Olaf Plytt Mowinkcel (1884-1965)William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971); Stanislav Segert (1921- ); Jerzy Kurlowicz (1895-?); Summary; Syllabic; Moshe Ben Shem Tov Ibn Habib (Fifteenth Century A.D.); Abraham Ben David Portaleone; Adalbert Merx (1838-1909); Robert C. Culley (1970); Douglas K. Stuart (1976); David Noel Freedman (1922- ); Summary; Accentual- Syllabic; Francis Hare (1671-1740); Joseph Levin Saalschutz (1801-1863); Summary; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Meterical Analysis of Select Texts; Introduction; The Control Data; The Meterical Control; Syllabic Meter: Japanese Haiku |
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Accentual Meter: BeowulfAccentual- Syllabic Meter: Shakespeare's Sonnets (I-X); The NonMeterical Control; Birth of Moses (Exod 2:1-10); Ruth 1; Summary; The Texts; Words and Accents; Syllabification and Vocalization; Lamentations 1; Lamentations 2; Lamentations 3; Lamentations 4; Lamentations 5; A Worthy Woman (Prov 31:10-31); Psalm 25; Psalm 34; Psalm 37; Psalm 111; Psalm 112; Psalm 119; Psalm 145; David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam 1:19-27); Conclusions; Regularity; Standard Deviation; Range; Relative Frequency Distribution Histograms; Excursus: Qinah Meter; Chapter 4: Conclusions |
| Summary |
This study provides three important contributions to the study of biblical Hebrew poetry: first, it surveys scholars of non-biblical, metrical poetry to ascertain how meter is defined in the field of literary criticism; second, it categorizes and critiques all significant proposals regarding meter in biblical Hebrew poetry from the time of Philo to the present; finally, it tests the most viable of the proposals against a large sample of poetic texts from the Hebrew Bible. The author generates statistical profiles for the texs and compares them with similar profiles from two categories of contr |
| Bibliography |
BibliographyIndex of Authors, Ancient and Mocern; Studies in Bible and Early Christianity |
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English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Language, style
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism
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Hebrew language -- Metrics and rhythmics.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Concordances.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Language Study.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Language and languages -- Style
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Hebrew language -- Metrics and rhythmics
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Hebrew poetry, Biblical
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Judaism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773412309 |
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0773412301 |
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