The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History
by Kugel, James L.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1998-06-05
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary
James Kugel reviews the history of the process whereby literary scholars differentiated parts of the Old Testament as prose or poetry and finds it mistaken from the start. First published in 1981, THE IDEA OF BIBLICAL POETRY immediately provoked controversy among scholars. Reinforced by habit and numbers, many continue to repeat the notions that Kugel attacks. And, as long as they do, his book will remain an indispensable counter.
Author Biography
James L. Kugel is the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Bibliographical Abbreviations | |
| The Parallelistic Line | p. 1 |
| Poetry and Prose | p. 59 |
| Rabbinic Exegesis and the "Forgetting" of Parallelism | p. 96 |
| Biblical Poetry and the Church | p. 135 |
| The Meter of Biblical Songs | p. 171 |
| "What Is the System of Hebrew Poetry?" | p. 204 |
| A Metrical Afterword | p. 287 |
| The Persistence of Parallelism | p. 305 |
| On Syntax and Style, with Some Reflections on M. P. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure | p. 315 |
| General Index | p. 325 |
| Scriptural Index | p. 333 |
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