Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in The Hebrew Bible / / edited by L.J. de Regt, J. de Waard, and J.P. Fokkelman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Regt, L. J. de,; Waard, J. de,; Fokkelman, J. P.,
• Place / Publishing House: The Netherlands : : BRILL,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Analysis of text structures has been a dominant feature in Biblical studies for quite some time. More recently, scholars have focused on rhetorical strategies that have been employed in Biblical texts. In this volume, rhetorical as well as structural approaches to the Hebrew Bible have been brought together. It contains studies on a range of topics and on a good many texts and textual corpuses. Interpretation culminates in translation. The contributors to this volume have discussed the implications of their findings for Bible translators. Many of these translational implications have been put together in an epilogue. The volume thus not only intends to show the present state of our knowledge of literary and rhetorical techniques employed in the Bible; on these points it aims to be a selective guide to translators as well. The volume has been edited by Lenart de Regt, Jan de Waard (both of the Free University of Amsterdam), and Jan Fokkelman (Leiden University).

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- I. Studies on Topics -- Character/Author/Reader: The Problem of Perspective in Biblical Narrative -- Inverted Parallelisms and Encased Parables in Isaiah and Their Significance for Old and New Testament Translation and Interpretation -- Discovering a New Path of Intertextuality: Inverted quotations and their dynamics -- Discourse Implications of Rhetorical Questions in Job, Deuteronomy and the Minor Prophets -- The Order of Participants in Compound Clausal Elements in the Pentateuch and Earlier Prophets: Syntax, convention or rhetoric? -- The Discourse Implications of Resumption in Hebrew [ARABIC TEXT]-Clauses: A preliminary assessment from Genesis -- Coordination Interrupted, or Literary Insertion AX&amp -- B Pattern, in the Books of Samuel -- II. Studies on Texts -- The Text as an Eloquent Guide: Rhetorical, linguistic and literary features in Genesis 1 -- Genesis 37 and 38 at the Interface of Structural Analysis and Hermeneutics -- Knowing Yahweh: Exod 6:3 in the context of Genesis 1 - Exodus 15 -- La structure du cortège d'Israël autour de Jéricho d'après Josué 6 -- Mythological Themes and the Unity of Ezekiel -- Psalm 1 and the Rhetoric of Religious Argumentation -- III. Epilogue -- Hebrew Rhetoric and the Translator -- Abbreviations -- Index of Biblical References -- List of Contributors.