Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms / / Robert Culley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Culley, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)

In Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms, Robert C. Culley discusses dynamics involved in oral composition of poetry, particularly regarding Biblical poetry, including the characteristic of parallelism, both as a composition device and as a framework within which other compositional aids would be necessary for a poet “writing” orally. Formulas, together with such devices as standard word-pairs, aided poets in composing regular lines within a literary tradition whose primary characteristic was parallelism of ideas. “Poets use formulas to build lines,” Culley explains; “the line and the colon, of which the line generally has two, are the most common formal divisions of Hebrew poetry to which possible formulas and formulaic phrases would conform.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Oral Formulaic Composition -- 2. The Devices and Characteristics of Oral Formulaic Composition -- 3. Oral Formulaic Composition and Texts -- 4. The Biblical Psalms and Oral Formulaic Composition -- 5. Formulas and Formulaic Systems -- 6. Distribution of the Phrases -- 7. The Theory in Broader Perspective -- Appendix : A Survey of Field-work and Textual Studies -- Bibliography -- Index