The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

By: Adele Berlin, David Noel Freedman (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 18 December 2007 | Edition Number 2

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Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin??'s study features an additional chapter, ?The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut, ? by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition ?innovative and instructive to those who value the linguistic analysis of poetry.? It is a fitting coda to Berlin's adept analysis.

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David Noel Freedman
(from the foreword)
"Adele Berlin writes felicitously, and she is a reliable Old Testament scholar. In this newly reprinted edition of The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism, Berlin probes the linguistic phenomenon of parallelism. . . I am confident that the reader will readily agree with Berlin herself that the study of parallelism is, above all else, fun."

Jan Fokkelman
-- Leiden University
"The twentieth century has seen important breakthroughs in many fields of the humanities. Roman Jakobson offered us creative and fascinating explorations at the interface of linguistics and poetics. Building on his work, Adele Berlin showed us how pervasive and many-sided the phenomenon of parallelism is in biblical poetry. It was a delight to follow her extensive array of well-chosen examples. We are lucky now to have Berlin's lucid language back in this revised edition."

Michael V. Fox
-- University of Wisconsin-Madison
"I have used Adele Berlin's Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism in both my teaching and my research for twenty years, and I still find it fresh and enlightening. Berlin examines parallelism through a linguistic lens, showing it to be a system of forces that combine to give biblical poetry its special powers of communication. Her book is lucid, closely argued, and based on linguistic erudition and literary sensitivity."

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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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