The shape of Hebrew poetry : : exploring the discourse function of linguistic parallelism in the Egyptian Hallel / / by Matthew I. Ayars.

• VerfasserIn: Ayars, Matthew I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page /; Dedication /; Epigraph /; Acknowledgments /; Figures /; Abbreviations /; Introductory Matters /; Introduction /; A History of Research of the Discourse Shape of Biblical Hebrew Poetry /; Roman Jakobson, Parallelism, and Structural Poetics /; Methodology of Discourse Analysis: Linguistics, or Literary Analysis? /; Discourse Analysis /; Psalm 113 /; Psalm 114 /; Psalm 115 /; Psalm 116 /; Psalm 117 /; Psalm 118 /; Conclusion /; Back Matter --; Bibliography /; Index of Names and Subjects /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900436627X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Matthew I. Ayars.

In The Shape of Hebrew Poetry , Matthew Ayars explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Russian Formalist Roman Jakobson's conceptulisation of linguistic parallelism to the Egpytian Hallel (Psalm 113–118). Other hebraists and biblical Hebrew poetry specialists have long noted the importance of Jakobson's theory of parallelism for poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, however, Ayars is the first to offer an application of Jakobsonian-based analysis to a poetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible.