Classical Hebrew Poetry A Guide to Its

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Foreword

ix

Abbreviations

xi

Short Titles of Frequently Mentioned Works

xvii

Festschriften

xix

Introduction

Scope and aims

1

(2)

Stylistics and Hebrew poetry

3

(1)

Poetic Texts in Other Semitic Languages

Introduction

4

(1)

Ugaritic Poetry

5

(2)

Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material

7

(4)

Analysing Hebrew Poetry: Notes on Method

Terminology

11

(4)

Method

15

(15)

Function in poetry

30

(5)

Archaisms

35

(4)

Dating

39

(2)

Textual criticism

41

(3)

Prose or poetry?

44

(18)

Closure: notes on theory

62

(4)

The Hebrew Poet in Action

Oral poetry

66

(1)

Oral poetry: theory

67

(7)

Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry

74

(2)

Ancient Hebrew oral poetry

76

(4)

Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew

80

(3)

Epic poetry in Hebrew?

83

(4)

Metre

What is metre?

87

(4)

Metre in ancient Semitic languages

91

(6)

The stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre

97

(6)

Other theories: survey and critique

103

(7)

Anacrusis

110

(1)

Functions of metre

111

(3)

Parallelism

Introductory

114

(9)

Gender-matched parallelism

123

(5)

Parallel word-pairs

128

(16)

Number parallelism

144

(6)

Staircase parallelism

150

(6)

Other types of parallelism

156

(4)

Stanza and Strophe

The stanza

160

(8)

Strophic patterns: introduction

168

(1)

The monocolon

168

(6)

The abc//bc couplet

174

(3)

The tricolon

177

(8)

Strophic patterns: the quatrain

185

(2)

Strophic patterns: the pentacolon

187

(1)

Higher strophic units

188

(2)

Acrostics and related patterns

190

(11)

Verse-Patterns

Introduction

201

(1)

Chiasmus and chiastic patterns

201

(7)

The terrace pattern (anadiplosis and sorites)

208

(6)

The pivot pattern

214

(8)

Sound in Hebrew Poetry

General

222

(1)

Assonance

222

(3)

Alliteration

225

(4)

Rhyme

229

(155)

Closing Comments

384

(2)

INDEXES

Index of subjects

386

(22)

Index of numerical references

408

(1)

Index of Biblical references

409

(22)

Index of Hebrew words

431

(4)

Index of Hebrew word-pairs

435

(2)

Index of Ugaritic texts

437

(4)

Index of Ugaritic words

441

(2)

Index of Ugaritic word-pairs

443

(1)

Index of Akkadian texts

443

(2)

Index of Akkadian words

445

(1)

Index of other texts

446

(1)

Index of authors cited

447

(9)

Supplementary Bibliography

456

(5)

Further Additions and Corrections to the Second Edition

461

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