Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism
Published on 18. December 2007
182 pages
978-1-4674-6673-8 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors inSmikhut,"by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition "innovative and instructive to those who value the linguistic analysis of poetry." It is a fitting coda to Berlin's adept analysis.
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The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by David Noel Freedman
- Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- I Parallelism and Poetry
- Parallelism and Poetry in Biblical Studies
- Parallelism and Poetry in Linguistic Studies
- II The Linguistic Study of Biblical Parallelism
- III The Grammatical Aspect
- Morphologic Parallelism
- A. Morphologic Pairs from Different Word Classes
- B. Morphologic Pairs from the Same Word Class
- Syntactic Parallelism
- A. Nominal-Verbal
- B. Positive-Negative
- C. Subject-Object
- D. Contrast in Grammatical Mood
- IV The Lexical and Semantic Aspects
- The Lexical Aspect: Word Pairs
- A. The Paradigmatic Rules
- B. The Syntagmatic Rules
- C. Syntagmatic Pairing in Hebrew
- The Relation between the Lexical and the Semantic Aspects
- Lexical, Grammatical, and Semantic Patterning
- A. Lexical Patterning
- B. Grammatical Patterning
- C. Semantic Patterning
- The Semantic Aspect
- A. Disambiguation and Ambiguity
- B. Parallelism as Metaphor
- V The Phonologic Aspect: Sound Pairs
- What Is a Sound Pair?
- Sound Pairs as Word Pairs
- Sound Pairs Which Are Not Word Pairs
- The Effect of Sound Pairs on Parallelism
- The Patterning of Sound Pairs
- A. aabb
- B. abab
- C. abba
- D. Multiple Sound Pairs
- E. Other Occurrences of Sound Pairs
- Appendix: Sound Pairs in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- VI Parallelism and the Text
- The Variety of Parallelisms
- Perceptibility and Interestingness
- A. Proximity
- B. Similarity of Surface Structure
- C. Number of Linguistic Equivalences
- D. Expectation of Parallelism
- The Effect of Parallelism
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut by Lida Knorina
