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[Robert Alter] ☆ The Art of Biblical Poetry ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Art of Biblical Poetry "Alter is a brilliant guide to the Bible" according to Alan A. Elsner. This companion volume to "The Art of Biblican Narrative" is equally illuminating although the subject matter is very different. Still, Alter is to my mind the deepest and most perceptive literary analyst I have ever read. His writing is not easy and I sometimes have to look up words he uses -- but he reads so closely and with such sympathy and sensitivity that his insights are often. Four Stars useful. Scott Rutherford said G
| Title | : | The Art of Biblical Poetry |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0567291766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Through many examples and through comparisons of the treatment of the same events in biblical prose and biblical poetry, Alter demonstrates how biblical authors used poetry to discover meaning: ``poetry is quintessentially the mode of expression in which the surface is the depth'' so that form and meaning are intimately united. Craft, English, Philosophy & Foreign Languages Dept., Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal A companion volume to Alter's earlier The Art of Biblical Narrative ( LJ 8/81), this excellent book investigates both the structuresespecially parallelism, intensification, choice of detailand the effects of biblical Hebrew poetry. Car
The author of "The Art of Biblical Narrative" provides a fresh interpretation of the poetry of the Old Testament and a lucid, original account of how biblical poetry works.
Robert Alter is professor of hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of, most recently, the highly praised biography of Stendhal, A Lion for Love (Basic Books, 1979).
"Alter is a brilliant guide to the Bible" according to Alan A. Elsner. This companion volume to "The Art of Biblican Narrative" is equally illuminating although the subject matter is very different. Still, Alter is to my mind the deepest and most perceptive literary analyst I have ever read. His writing is not easy and I sometimes have to look up words he uses -- but he reads so closely and with such sympathy and sensitivity that his insights are often. Four Stars useful. Scott Rutherford said Great Purchase for Serious Study. Alter is a good scholar. He disseminates hebrew poetry and shows you how it works. He looks at Hebrew poetry as if he is a scientist and the text is a test tube. This book will allow the bible student to think about the text in light of how it is composed (such as the use of parallelism). The only thing lacking here is the sense that this is how God communicates to us. As a Bible st
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