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