The Forms of Hebrew Poetry

THE FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY CONSIDERED WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BY GEORGE ...

PREFACE IT is impossible to go far at the present day in any serious attempt to interpret the prophetical books, or the books co ...

vi FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY their bearing on the criticism and interpretation of the Old Testament. I have no new theory of Hebrew ...

PREFACE vii earlier, are' in the present volume rather of the nature of an Appendix, being special studies in the reconstruction ...

viii FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY readiest way of making clear my meaning; in others it is for the Hebrew student superfluous, and par ...

CONTENTS CHAPTER I Page INTRODUCTORY 3 CHAPTER II PARALLELISM : A RESTATEMENT 37 CHAPTER III PARALLELISM AND RHYTHM IN THE BOOK ...

x FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY CHAPTER VII Page THE ALPHABETIC POEM IN NAHUM 243 CHAPTER VIII THE ALPHABETIC STRUCTURE OF PSALMS IX. A ...

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY ...

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY FAILURE to perceive what are the formal elements in Hebrew poetry has, in the past, frequently led to mis ...

4 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY —parallelism and metre—require to be studied in close connexion with one another, and indeed in closer ...

INTRODUCTORY 5 and few lectures delivered from that chair have been more influential than his De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum Praelect ...

6 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY of documentary analysis and questions of origin, Astruc may seem a more important founder of Modern Cri ...

INTRODUCTORY 7 analysed and expounded the parallelistic struc- ture of Hebrew poetry, and he drew attention to the fact that the ...

8 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY Whether after all parallelism is itself a true differentia between prose and poetry in Hebrew, may be a ...

INTRODUCTORY 9 of Jewish grammarians and philologists. These recognised the difference between the old poetry and the new, but c ...

10 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY mediaeval Jewish scholars. Whether as a matter of fact they point to any discernment of the :real prin ...

INTRODUCTORY 11 peutae sang hymns " in many metres and tunes," and in particular in iambic trimeters. The three statements of Jo ...

12 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY Origen's reference to the subject of Hebrew metre is to be found in a scholion on Psalm cxviii. 1 (LXX ...

INTRODUCTORY 13 Greeks call heroic metre. At least it is said (Octal, (pi-iv) that these are hexameters, consisting of sixteen s ...

14 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY pentameters.^1 Yet elsewhere^2 "Deuteronomii Canticum" is said to be written in iambic tetra- meters. ...