Formula criticism and the poetry of the Old Testament / William R. Watters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watters, William R.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1976.
Series:	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 138.
Subjects:	Bibel > Altes Testament Hebrew poetry, Biblical. Hebrew poetry > History and criticism. Hebrew poetry, Biblical > History and criticism. Hebrew language > Parallelism. RELIGION > Biblical Criticism & Interpretation > Old Testament. Hebrew language > Parallelism Hebrew poetry Hebrew poetry, Biblical Formelsprache > Literatur Formgeschichte Woordvolgorde. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I. Formula Criticism: An Historical Survey
A. Introduction
B. The Discovery of Formula from Classical Studies
1. Milman Parry
2. A.B. Lord
3. Robert C. Culley
4. Summary
C. The Discovery of Word Pairs from Northwest Semitic Studies
1. H.L. Ginsberg
2. Umberto Cassuto and Moshe Held
3. Stanley Gevirtz
4. Samuel Loewenstamm and Y. Avishur
5. Summary
D. The Discovery of Repeated Word Pairs and Phrases from Comparative Studies
1. Culley and Gevirtz
2. William Whallon3. Summary
E. Conclusion and Anticipation
Chapter II. The Nature and Occurrence of Word Pairs
A. Introduction
B. The Word Pairs as the Dominating Element of Formulaic Hebrew Poetry
C. The Nature of the Word Pair
D. The Presence of Word Pairs in Both Oral and Written Poetry
E. Conclusion and Anticipation
Chapter III. Word Pairs in the Transmission and Composition of the Poetry
A. The Origin of Word Pairs in the Oral and Written Composition of Poems
B. The Unlikely Transmissional Activity of Word Pairs
C. Traditional Diction Versus Common Association and Limited VocabularyChapter IV. Word Pairs and the Creativity of the Hebrew Poet
A. The Creativity of the Poet as Author
B. Creativity and the Association of Words in Pair
C. Different Genre, Formulas, and Subject Matter
D. Conclusion and Anticipation
Chapter V. Word Pairs as a Significant Index to the Poetic Line
A. Bishop Lowthâ€?s Contribution
B. The Peculiarities of Poetic Construction as Revealed by Word Pairs
1. Long Tours
2. Standardized Patterns
C. Violating the Economies of Composition and TranslationD. The Homeric Epithet as Distinctive from the Hebrew Word Pairs
E. Conclusion and Anticipation
Chapter VI. Usefulness of Word Pairs in Evaluating Poetry
A. Introduction: The Usefulness of Formula Criticism
B. What is Prose? What is Poetry?
C. Was Ruth Originally a Poetic Book?
D. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Dating Texts
E. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Authenticating Texts
1. Isaiah
2. Job
3. Lamentations
F. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Relating Texts1. Lamentations and Jeremiah
2. Lamentations and the Lament Psalms
G. Formula Criticism and the Problem of Repairing Texts
H. Conclusion
Chapter VII. Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Study
A. Conclusions
B. Further Study
Appendix. Lists
A. Introduction
B. The Lists
1. Numerical Summary
2. Isaiah
3. Job
4. Lamentations
5. Ruth
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Formula criticism and the poetry of the Old Testament / William R. Watters.

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