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Beyond Orality
Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms
The Ancient Word Series
Author: Vayntrub Jacqueline
Language: EnglishSubjects for Beyond Orality:
Keywords
Young Man; Biblical Poetry; Orality in the ancient Near East; Parallelismus Membrorum; Orality in the biblical world; Great Divide; Orality in biblical literature; Frame Speaker; Orality in the bible; Biblical Authors; Orality in biblical poetry; Robert Lowth; Philology and biblical poetry; Ibn Falaquera; mashal; Van Der Toorn; Biblical mashal; Wisdom Literature; oral poetics; Hebrew Poetry; oral poetics in the bible; Poetic Units; oral poetics in the ancient near east; David’s Speech; performance and the bible; Modern Biblical Scholarship; performance and orality; Prophetic Collection; Biblical Scholarship; Biblical Texts; Biblical Wisdom Literature; Ibn Tibbon; David Son; Balaam Story; Ethnic Genre; Wisdom Corpus; Masoretic Text; David’s Performance
Publication date: 12-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 03-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them?their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as ?poetry,? but there was no corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept. Scholars also typically assume it began as ?oral literature,? a concept based more in evolutionist assumptions than evidence. Is biblical poetry a purely modern fiction, or is there a more fundamental reason why its definition escapes us?
Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms changes the debate by showing how biblical poetry has worked as a mirror, reflecting each era?s own self-image of verbal art. Yet Vayntrub also shows that this problem is rooted in a crucial pattern within the Bible itself: the texts we recognize as ?poetry? are framed as powerful and ancient verbal performances, dramatic speeches from the past. The Bible?s creators presented what we call poetry in terms of their own image of the ancient and the oral, and understanding their native theories of Hebrew verbal art gives us a new basis to rethink our own.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Proverbs and Poetry to Prose: The Bible’s Own "Great Divide"; Chapter 2. The Idea of Mashal: Scholarship’s Quest for the Essence of Poetry; Chapter 3. Wisdom, Orality, and Recovering Native Poetics; Chapter 4. The Speech Performance Frame: The Case of Balaam’s Speeches; Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24; Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Writings Index; Subject Index
Jacqueline Vayntrub is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, USA.
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