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Beyond Orality - Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms (Paperback)
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Beyond Orality - Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms (Paperback)
Series: The Ancient Word
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Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew
Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them-their genres.
Modern scholars describe these works as "poetry," but there was no
corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept. Scholars also
typically assume it began as "oral literature," a concept based
more in evolutionist assumptions than evidence. Is biblical poetry
a purely modern fiction, or is there a more fundamental reason why
its definition escapes us? Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its
Own Terms changes the debate by showing how biblical poetry has
worked as a mirror, reflecting each era's own self-image of verbal
art. Yet Vayntrub also shows that this problem is rooted in a
crucial pattern within the Bible itself: the texts we recognize as
"poetry" are framed as powerful and ancient verbal performances,
dramatic speeches from the past. The Bible's creators presented
what we call poetry in terms of their own image of the ancient and
the oral, and understanding their native theories of Hebrew verbal
art gives us a new basis to rethink our own.
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