The art of Biblical poetry / Robert Alter.
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TextNew York: Basic Books, [1985]Description: xii, 22 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 046500430X
- BS1405.2 .A48 1985
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and indexes.
1 The dynamics of parallelism. -- 2 From line to story. -- 3 Structures of intensification. -- 4 Truth and poetry in the Book of Job. -- 5 Forms of faith in Psalms. -- 6 Prophecy and poetry. -- 7 The poetry of wit. -- 8 The garden of metaphor. -- 9 The life of the tradition. -- General index. -- Biblical reference index
'In this brilliant, original, and highly readable analysis, the author...provides a fresh interpretation of the poetry of the Old Testament and a lucid account of how biblical poetry works....[He] enables the general reader and specialist alike to see these ancient poems with a new freshness, and to understand better the manifold connections between poetic vehicle and religious vision.'
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