The Forms of Hebrew Poetry: Considered with Special Reference to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Old Testament

by Gray, George Buchanan

• ISBN13: 9781579109721
• ISBN10: 1579109721
• Format: Textbook Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers

Summary

Gray refined the classifications offered up by Lowth in his 'Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews'. Gray developed ingenious readings of texts which had been previously been seen as corrupt and readable only with major emendations. Gray deduced principles of Semitic poetry which allowed these texts to be sensibly read without emendation.

Table of Contents

Introductory	p. 3
Parallelism: a Restatement	p. 37
Parallelism and Rhythm in the Book of Lamentations	p. 87
The Elements of Hebrew Rhythm	p. 123
Varieties of Rhythm: the Strophe	p. 157
The Bearing of certain Metrical Theories on Criticism and Interpretation	p. 201
The Alphabetic Poem in Nahum	p. 243
The Alphabetic Structure of Psalms IX. and X.	p. 267
Additional Note on the Repetition of the same Term in Parallel Lines	p. 295
Of Passages of Scripture	p. 297
Of Matters	p. 301
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