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Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible

Edited by L. J. de Regt, J. de Waard, and Jan P. Fokkelman

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Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible

Edited by L. J. de Regt, J. de Waard, and Jan P. Fokkelman

Fourteen essays on discourse, narrative, poetic forms, linguistics, and literary features of Old Testament literature.

 

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Fourteen essays on discourse, narrative, poetic forms, linguistics, and literary features of Old Testament literature.

Preface

Foreword by T. Muraoka

I. Studies on Topics

Character/Author/Reader: The Problem of Perspective in Biblical Narrative - J. Magonet

Inverted Parallelisms and Encased Parables in Isaiah and Their Significance for Old and New Testament Translation and Interpretation - K.E. Bailey

Discovering a New Path of Intertextuality: Inverted quotations and their dynamics - P.C. Beentjes

Discourse Implications of Rhetorical Questions in Job, Deuteronomy and the Minor Prophets - L.J. de Regt

The Order of Participants in Compound Clausal Elements in the Pentateuch and Earlier Prophets: Syntax, convention or rhetoric? - L.J. de Regt

The Discourse Implications of Resumption in Hebrew Clauses: A preliminary assessment from Genesis - H. Van Dyke Parunak

Coordination Interrupted, or Literary Insertion AX&B Pattern, in the Books of Samuel - D.T. Tsumura

II. Studies on Texts

The Text as an Eloquent Guide: Rhetorical, linguistic and literary features in Genesis 1 - Ellen J. van Wolde

Genesis 37 and 38 at the Interface of Structural Analysis and Hermeneutics - J.P. Fokkelman

Knowing Yahweh: Exodus 6:3 in the context of Genesis 1-Exodus 15 - L.M. Eslinger

La structure du cortege d’Israel autour de Jericho d’apres Josue 6 - J.C. Margot

Mythological Themes and the Unity of Ezekiel - L.E. Boadt

Psalm 1 and the Rhetoric of Religious Argumentation - Y. Gitay

III. Epilogue

Hebrew Rhetoric and the Translator - J. de Waard

Abbreviations

Index of Biblical References

List of Contributors

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