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Poetic Imagination in Proverbs - Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry (Hardcover)
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Poetic Imagination in Proverbs - Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement
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No fewer than 223 verses in Proverbs appear two times (79 sets),
three times (15 sets), or even four times (5 sets) in identical or
slightly altered form-more than 24% of the book. Heim analyzes all
of these, presenting them in delineated Hebrew lines and in English
translation. Where appropriate, the translations are followed by
textual notes that discuss uncertainties regarding the textual
witnesses (textual criticism) and explore lexical, grammatical, and
syntactical problems. Heim also analyzes the way the parallelism in
each verse of a variant set has been constructed, presenting
diagrams and tables with columns that highlight the corresponding
similarities and differences among repeated verses. Key to this
investigation is the search for links between the variants and
their surrounding verses, such as repetitions of sound and sense.
Heim shows that most variant repetitions result from skillful
poetic creativity. Reconstruction of the editorial and creative
poetic process highlights what poets did, how they did it, and why
they did it. He develops criteria for determining the direction of
borrowing between the verses and demonstrates that the phenomenon
of variant repetition is an editorial concern that operates on the
level of the book as a whole. He develops and refines a range of
interpretive techniques and skills, arrives at fresh
interpretations, and shows that ancient proverbial wisdom is
relevant to modern societies. This study sheds new light on the
nature of biblical poetry and on the methods and virtues best
suited for its study. While specific to the book of Proverbs in the
first instance, the findings in this study apply to poetry
elsewhere. Three fundamental insights should inform future work on
poetry: the creative combination of repetition with variation is
the very essence of poetry; what has been written with imagination
should be read with imagination; imaginative interpretation values
the normal features of poetic expression and celebrates the truly
unusual.
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