Formula Criticism and the Poetry of the Old Testament
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Erschienen am 1. Dezember 2011
XVI, 227 Seiten
978-3-11-083559-5 (ISBN)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Formula Criticism: An Historical Survey
- A. Introduction
- B. The Discovery of Formula from Classical Studies
- 1. Milman Parry
- 2. A. B. Lord
- 3. Robert C. Culley
- 4. Summary
- C. The Discovery of Word Pairs from Northwest Semitic Studies
- 1. H. L. Ginsberg
- 2. Umberto Cassuto and Moshe Held
- 3. Stanley Gevirtz
- 4. Samuel Loewenstamm and Y. Avishur
- 5. Summary
- D. The Discovery of Repeated Word Pairs and Phrases from Comparative Studies
- 1. Culley and Gevirtz
- 2. William Whallon
- 3. Summary
- E. Conclusion and Anticipation
- Chapter II. The Nature and Occurrence of Word Pairs
- A. Introduction
- B. The Word Pairs as the Dominating Element of Formulaic Hebrew Poetry
- C. The Nature of the Word Pair
- D. The Presence of Word Pairs in Both Oral and Written Poetry
- E. Conclusion and Anticipation
- Chapter III. Word Pairs in the Transmission and Composition of the Poetry
- A. The Origin of Word Pairs in the Oral and Written Composition of Poems
- B. The Unlikely Transmissional Activity of Word Pairs
- C. Traditional Diction Versus Common Association and Limited Vocabulary
- Chapter IV. Word Pairs and the Creativity of the Hebrew Poet
- A. The Creativity of the Poet as Author
- B. Creativity and the Association of Words in Pair
- C. Different Genre, Formulas, and Subject Matter
- D. Conclusion and Anticipation
- Chapter V. Word Pairs as a Significant Index to the Poetic Line
- A. Bishop Lowth's Contribution
- B. The Peculiarities of Poetic Construction as Revealed by Word Pairs
- 1. Long Tours
- 2. Standardized Patterns
- C. Violating the Economies of Composition and Translation
- D. The Homeric Epithet as Distinctive from the Hebrew Word Pairs
- E. Conclusion and Anticipation
- Chapter VI. Usefulness of Word Pairs in Evaluating Poetry
- A. Introduction: The Usefulness of Formula Criticism
- B. What is Prose? What is Poetry?
- C. Was Ruth Originally a Poetic Book?
- D. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Dating Texts
- E. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Authenticating Texts
- 1. Isaiah
- 2. Job
- 3. Lamentations
- F. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Relating Texts
- 1. Lamentations and Jeremiah
- 2. Lamentations and the Lament Psalms
- G. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Repairing Texts
- H. Conclusion
- Chapter VII. Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Study
- A. Conclusions
- B. Further Study
- Appendix. Lists
- A. Introduction
- B. The Lists
- 1. Numerical Summary
- 2. Isaiah
- 3. Job
- 4. Lamentations
- 5. Ruth
- Bibliography
