Jacqueline Vayntrub

Beyond Orality

Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Ancient Word
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780367731571
• ISBN-10: 0367731576
• Artikelnr.: 67679892

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Vayntrub is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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