The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

by Berlin, Adele

• ISBN13: 9780802803979
• ISBN10: 0802803970
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-30
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Adele Berlin is Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Abbreviations
Parallelism and Poetry	p. 1
Parallelism and Poetry in Biblical Studies	p. 3
Parallelism and Poetry in Linguistic Studies	p. 7
The Linguistic Study of Biblical Parallelism	p. 18
The Grammatical Aspect	p. 31
Morphologic Parallelism	p. 32
Syntactic Parallelism	p. 53
The Lexical and Semantic Aspects	p. 64
The Lexical Aspect: Word Pairs	p. 65
The Relation between the Lexical and the Semantic Aspects	p. 80
Lexical, Grammatical, and Semantic Patterning	p. 83
The Semantic Aspect	p. 88
The Phonologic Aspect: Sound Pairs	p. 103
What Is a Sound Pair?	p. 103
Sound Pairs as Word Pairs	p. 106
Sound Pairs Which Are Not Word Pairs	p. 108
The Effect of Sound Pairs on Parallelism	p. 111
The Patterning of Sound Pairs	p. 112
Sound Pairs in A Midsummer Night's Dream	p. 125
Parallelism and the Text	p. 127
The Variety of Parallelisms	p. 127
Perceptibility and Interestingness
The Effect of Parallelism	p. 135
Notes	p. 142
Glossary	p. 156
Bibliography	p. 158
The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut	p. 171
Index of Biblical Passages	p. 193
General Index	p. 196
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