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Essentials of Biblical Studies

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry

James, Elaine T. (Associate Professor of Old Testament, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary)

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry

Essentials of Biblical Studies

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry

Essentials of Biblical Studies: An Invitation to Biblical Poetry

 

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an introduction to the aesthetic dimensions of the ancient poetry of the Bible. It argues that, as art, biblical poems engage their readers in embodied encounters that accomplish intellectual work.


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Beschrijving Essentials of Biblical Studies: An Invitation to Biblical Poetry

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.


ISBN
9780190664923
Pagina's
176
Verschenen
Serie
Essentials of Biblical Studies
NUR
660
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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