A Word Fitly Spoken explores significant poetic devices within the
four alphabetic acrostic psalms found in Book I of the Psalter. The
majority of scholarly opinion has been that these acrostics are
poetically and artistically deficient due to the writers’ and
editors’ preoccupation with the alphabetic pattern. In contrast
to this view, A Word Fitly Spoken proposes that the acrostic
pattern contributes to, rather than detracts from, the poetic
artistry of these psalms. In an effort to promote a holistic,
canonical reading of the four acrostic poems within Book I of the
Psalter, this study also examines the linguistic and grammatical
connections within the text. Such a close reading repeatedly
demonstrates the emotive power and the imagination of this
literature in contradiction to its supposedly stiff, wooden nature.
A Word Fitly Spoken is attuned to the frequent plays on word and
sound that occur throughout these four poems and as such would be
useful in graduate courses on biblical interpretation, Hebrew
poetry, or the Psalms.
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