TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Wilfred G.E.
TI  - Classical Hebrew poetry: a guide to its techniques 
T2  - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series,
SN  - 0905774574
AV  - BS1405.2 W37 1984
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Sheffield
PB  - JSOT Press
KW  - Hebrew poetry, Biblical
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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