Research Catalog

Title

Pottery, poetry, and prophecy : studies in early Hebrew poetry / David Noel Freedman.

Author

Freedman, David Noel, 1922-2008.

Publication

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, ©1980.

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Details

Description

x, 376 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The papers published here are pioneering studies, fresh and provocative, full of brilliant detail, together yielding major advances in the analysis of Hebrew poetry ... Freedman is moved by symmetries in Hebrew poetry undetected by a previous generation of students--symmetries, or rhythms at every level: phonetic, morphological, grammatical, structural in colon, verse, and strophe. He desires as well to provide a scholarly description and notation to Hebrew prosodic canons and techniques more refined and precise than alternate systems afford. He has a sure and instinctive literary feel for his material."--Jacket.

Subject

• Bibel
• Hebrew poetry, Biblical > History and criticism
• Hebrew poetry, Biblical
• Prophetie
• Versdichtung
• Literatur
• Oude Testament
• Dichtkunst
• Bible as literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "A collection of articles and essays, practically all of which were published during the 1970's."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Abbreviations -- Pottery, poetry, and prophecy -- Prolgomenon -- Acrostics and metrics in Hebrew poetry -- Divine names and titles in early Hebrew poetry -- Early Israelite history in the light of early Israelite poetry -- Early Israelite poetry and historical reconstructions -- The song of the sea -- Strophe and meter in Exodus 15 -- The Aaronic benediction (Numbers 6:24-26) -- Psalm 113 and the song of Hannah -- The refrain in David's lament over Saul and Jonathan -- The twenty-third Psalm -- The structure of Psalm 137 -- The structure of Job 3 -- The Elihu speeches in the book of Job -- The broken construct chain -- Critical notes: II Samuel 23:4 -- Isaiah 42, 13 -- God almighty in Psalm 78, 59.

ISBN

• 0931464048
• 9780931464041

LCCN

80068378

OCLC

• ocm06846566
• 6846566
• SCSB-38876

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library