Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelisms and the Poems of Sirach (Studies in Biblical Literature) - Softcover

Reymond, Eric D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589831152 ISBN 13: 9781589831155

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004

Synopsis

Although scholars point to similarities between Sirach and the book of Proverbs and sometimes characterize Ben Sira's relationship to biblical poetry as one of imitation (often unsuccessful imitation), this study considers the innovative and unique aspects of Sirach poetry, especially its use of parallelism, and demonstrates that Ben Sira does not rely exclusively on Proverbs or any other biblical book as a model. Innovations in Hebrew Poetry provides detailed readings and philological analysis for the nine poems in the Masada scroll, and general observations on many other Sirach and biblical poems complement the analysis.

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Synopsis

Later poetry in the Hebrew Bible has been unfavorably compared to the classical poetry of Proverbs. In a study based on his 1999 dissertation, Reymond (St. John's U. and Long Island U.) reassesses Ben Sirach's nine poems. After a brief review of past scholarship, he argues from a philological analysis of each poem that, rather than being poor imita

Edition details

• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1589831152
• ISBN 13: 9781589831155
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188