An Invitation to Biblical Poetry (Essentials of Biblical Studies)

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Synopsis
An Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an accessibly written introduction to biblical poetry that emphasizes the aesthetic dimensions of poems and their openness to varieties of context. It demonstrates the irreducible complexity of poetry as a verbal art and considers the intellectual work poems accomplish as they offer aesthetic experiences to people who read or hear them. Chapters walk the reader through some of the diverse ways biblical poems are organized through techniques of voicing, lineation, and form, and describe how the poems' figures are both culturally and historically bound and always dependent on later reception. The discussions consider examples from different texts of the Bible, including poems inset in prose narratives, prophecies, psalms, and wisdom literature. Each chapter ends with a reading of a psalm that offers an acute example of the dimension under discussion. Students and general readers are invited to richer and deeper readings of ancient poems and the subjects, problems, and convictions that occupy their imagination.
Copyright:
2021

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ISBN-13:
9780190664954
Related ISBNs:
9780190664930, 9780190664923, 9780190664947
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Teens, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Music
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