The Art of Biblical Poetry

The Art of Biblical Poetry
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0465028195

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispensable tool for understanding the Bible and its poetry.

The Art of Biblical Narrative

The Art of Biblical Narrative
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0465025552

From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the "groundbreaking" (Los Angeles Times) book that explores the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible's many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.

The Art of Biblical Poetry

The Art of Biblical Poetry
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1985
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0465004318

Analyzes the structure, functions, and metaphors of the poetry in Psalms, Job, Proverbs, and other books of the Old Testament

Reading Biblical Poetry

Reading Biblical Poetry
Author:
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664224394

A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative provides a holistic introduction to biblical poetry, offering literary examples of how the poets of the bible created their works. Original.

Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading

Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading
Author: J. Blake Couey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108698190

This volume explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Composed of essays by fifteen leading scholars of biblical poetry, it offers creative and insightful close readings of poems from across the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Psalms, wisdom poetry, Song of Songs, prophecy, and poetry in biblical narrative). The essays build on recent advances in our understanding of biblical poetry and engage a variety of theoretical perspectives and current trends in the study of literature. They demonstrate the rewards of careful attention to textual detail, and they provide models of the practice of close reading for students, scholars, and general readers. They also highlight the rich aesthetic value of the biblical poetic corpus and offer reflection on the nature of poetry itself as a meaningful and enduring form of art.

The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism
Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780253207654

For years scholars of biblical poetry have defined parallelism as the simple correspondence of one verse, phrase, or word with another. In this book, Adele Berlin approaches biblical parallelism as a linguistic phenomenon, as a complex interplay among all aspects of language. Her goal is to get at the basics of what biblical parallelism is and how it works. Berlin's examination of the grammatical, lexical, semantic, phonetic, structural, and psychological aspects of parallelism yields an elegantly simple model that reveals the complex workings of this phenomenon. Her book will be a valuable guide for both scholars and students of biblical poetry.

Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative

Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative
Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781575060026

Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.

On Biblical Poetry

On Biblical Poetry
Author: F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199766908

On Biblical Poetry considers the characteristics of biblical Hebrew Poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, careful attention to prosody, and close reading.

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0393337049

In his brilliant new translation of one of the Bibles most cherished and powerful books, Alter captures the simplicity, physicality, and coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems.