Classical Hebrew poetry : a guide to its techniques /
Watson, Wilfred G. E.
Classical Hebrew poetry : a guide to its techniques / Wilfred G.E. Watson - 2nd ed - Sheffield : JSOT Press, c1986 - xx, 460 p : ill ; 22 cm - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 26 0309-0787 ; . - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 26 .
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) Includes bibliographies and indexes Includes texts in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Ugaritic, with English translations
Foreword
Short Titles of Frequently Mentioned Works
Festschriften
Abbreviations
1 introduction
1.1 Scope and aims
2 Stylistics and Hebrew poetry
2 poetic texts in other semitic languages
2.1 Introduction
2 Ugaritic poetry
3 Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material
3 analysing hebrew poetry: notes on method
3.1 Terminology
2 Method
3 Function in poetry
4 Archaisms
5 Dating
6 Textual criticism
7 Prose or poetry?
8 Closure: notes on theory
4 the hebrew poet in action
4.1 Oral poetry
2 Oral poetry: theory
3 Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry
4 Ancient Hebrew oral poetry
5 Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew
6 Epic poetry in Hebrew?
5 metre
5.1 What is metre?
2 Metre in ancient Semitic languages
3 The stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre
4 Other theories: survey and critique
5 Anacrusis
6 Functions of metre
6 parallelism
6.1 Introductory
2 Gender-matched parallelism
3 Parallel word-pairs
4 Number parallelism
5 Staircase parallelism
6 Other types of parallelism
7 stanza and strophe
7.1 The stanza
2 Strophic patterns: introduction
3 The monocolon
4 The abc//b′c′ couplet
5 The tricolon
6 Strophic patterns: the quatrain
7 Strophic patterns: the pentacolon
8 Higher strophic units
9 Acrostics and related patterns
8 verse-patterns
8.1 Introduction
2 Chiasmus and chiastic patterns
3 The terrace pattern (anadiplosis) and sorites
4 The pivot pattern
9 sound in hebrew poetry
9.1 General
2 Assonance
3 Alliteration
4 Rhyme
5 Onomatopoeia
6 Wordplay
10 imagery
10.1 Imagery
2 Simile
3 Metaphor
11 poetic devices
11.01 The interplay of poetic devices
02 Repetition
03 Envelope figure
04 Keywords
05 Refrain
06 Allusion
07 Ellipsis
08 Irony
09 Oxymoron
10 Abstract for concrete
11 Hyperbole
12 Merismus
13 Hendiadys
14 The ‘break-up’ of a composite phrase
15 Enjambment
16 Delayed identification
17 Rhetorical questions
18 Ballast variant
12 secondary techniques
12.1 Expansion
2 Lists
3 Inversion
13 appendix: worked examples
13.1 Introduction
2 A Ugaritic poem
3 Babylonian poetry
4 Hebrew examples
closing comments
indexes
1 Index of subjects
2 Index of numerical references
3 Index of Biblical references
4 Index of Hebrew words
5 Index of Hebrew word-pairs
6 Index of Ugaritic texts
7 Index of Ugaritic words
8 Index of Ugaritic word-pairs
9 Index of Akkadian texts
10 Index of Akkadian words
11 Index of other texts
12 Index of authors cited
In spite of debatable issues, such as metre, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and appreciation of Hebrew verse. Topics include oral poetry, metre, parallelism and forms of the strophe and stanza. Sound patterns and imagery are also discussed. A lengthy chapter sets out a whole range of other poetic devices and the book closes with a set of worked examples of Hebrew poetry. Throughout, other ancient Semitic verse has been used for comparison and the principles of modern literary criticism have been applied.
0905774574 1850750483 (pbk)
Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.
BS1405.2 / W37 1984
Classical Hebrew poetry : a guide to its techniques / Wilfred G.E. Watson - 2nd ed - Sheffield : JSOT Press, c1986 - xx, 460 p : ill ; 22 cm - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 26 0309-0787 ; . - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 26 .
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) Includes bibliographies and indexes Includes texts in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Ugaritic, with English translations
Foreword
Short Titles of Frequently Mentioned Works
Festschriften
Abbreviations
1 introduction
1.1 Scope and aims
2 Stylistics and Hebrew poetry
2 poetic texts in other semitic languages
2.1 Introduction
2 Ugaritic poetry
3 Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material
3 analysing hebrew poetry: notes on method
3.1 Terminology
2 Method
3 Function in poetry
4 Archaisms
5 Dating
6 Textual criticism
7 Prose or poetry?
8 Closure: notes on theory
4 the hebrew poet in action
4.1 Oral poetry
2 Oral poetry: theory
3 Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry
4 Ancient Hebrew oral poetry
5 Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew
6 Epic poetry in Hebrew?
5 metre
5.1 What is metre?
2 Metre in ancient Semitic languages
3 The stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre
4 Other theories: survey and critique
5 Anacrusis
6 Functions of metre
6 parallelism
6.1 Introductory
2 Gender-matched parallelism
3 Parallel word-pairs
4 Number parallelism
5 Staircase parallelism
6 Other types of parallelism
7 stanza and strophe
7.1 The stanza
2 Strophic patterns: introduction
3 The monocolon
4 The abc//b′c′ couplet
5 The tricolon
6 Strophic patterns: the quatrain
7 Strophic patterns: the pentacolon
8 Higher strophic units
9 Acrostics and related patterns
8 verse-patterns
8.1 Introduction
2 Chiasmus and chiastic patterns
3 The terrace pattern (anadiplosis) and sorites
4 The pivot pattern
9 sound in hebrew poetry
9.1 General
2 Assonance
3 Alliteration
4 Rhyme
5 Onomatopoeia
6 Wordplay
10 imagery
10.1 Imagery
2 Simile
3 Metaphor
11 poetic devices
11.01 The interplay of poetic devices
02 Repetition
03 Envelope figure
04 Keywords
05 Refrain
06 Allusion
07 Ellipsis
08 Irony
09 Oxymoron
10 Abstract for concrete
11 Hyperbole
12 Merismus
13 Hendiadys
14 The ‘break-up’ of a composite phrase
15 Enjambment
16 Delayed identification
17 Rhetorical questions
18 Ballast variant
12 secondary techniques
12.1 Expansion
2 Lists
3 Inversion
13 appendix: worked examples
13.1 Introduction
2 A Ugaritic poem
3 Babylonian poetry
4 Hebrew examples
closing comments
indexes
1 Index of subjects
2 Index of numerical references
3 Index of Biblical references
4 Index of Hebrew words
5 Index of Hebrew word-pairs
6 Index of Ugaritic texts
7 Index of Ugaritic words
8 Index of Ugaritic word-pairs
9 Index of Akkadian texts
10 Index of Akkadian words
11 Index of other texts
12 Index of authors cited
In spite of debatable issues, such as metre, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and appreciation of Hebrew verse. Topics include oral poetry, metre, parallelism and forms of the strophe and stanza. Sound patterns and imagery are also discussed. A lengthy chapter sets out a whole range of other poetic devices and the book closes with a set of worked examples of Hebrew poetry. Throughout, other ancient Semitic verse has been used for comparison and the principles of modern literary criticism have been applied.
0905774574 1850750483 (pbk)
Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.
BS1405.2 / W37 1984