The Shape of Hebrew Poetry

Exploring the Discourse Function of Linguistic Parallelism in the Egyptian Hallel
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36626-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Studia Semitica Neerlandica

In The Shape of Hebrew Poetry, Matthew Ayars explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Russian Formalist Roman Jakobson's conceptulisation of linguistic parallelism to the Egpytian Hallel (Psalm 113–118). Other hebraists and biblical Hebrew poetry specialists have long noted the importance of Jakobson's theory of parallelism for poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, however, Ayars is the first to offer an application of Jakobsonian-based analysis to a poetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayars, Matthew Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew I. Ayars, Ph.D. (2016), University of Chester, is President and Professor of Biblical Studies at Emmaus Biblical Seminary of Haiti. He is also the Vice President of Theological Education at the One Mission Society.