Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 8 addresses the distinction between verse-poetry and prose in the Bible, as well as aspects of their interrelatedness. The initial section discusses verse and prose as modes of structure and the relationship between verse and poetry. The following two sections address problems with how biblical poetry and prose are often approached: confusion regarding poetic structure and poetic function, related to Roman Jakobson’s approach to parallelism, and the problem of a poetic features approach for identifying biblical poetry. The final three sections consider issues specific to reading actual biblical texts: whether a passage is prose or poetry, the presence of so-called parallelism in biblical narrative, and elevated prose style and the mixing of the structural modes in the prophetic books.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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