Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on Its Own Terms Vayntrub Jacqueline
Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on Its Own Terms Vayntrub Jacqueline Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them--their genres.…
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Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on Its Own Terms Vayntrub Jacqueline
Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them--their genres. Scholars also typically assume it began as "oral literature," a concept based more in evolutionist assumptions than evidence. Modern scholars describe these works as "poetry," but there was no corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept.
Yet Vayntrub also shows that this problem is rooted in a crucial pattern within the Bible itself: the texts we recognize as "poetry" are framed as powerful and ancient verbal performances, dramatic speeches from the Is biblical poetry a purely modern fiction, or is there a more fundamental reason why its definition escapes us?Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms changes the debate by showing how biblical poetry has worked as a mirror, reflecting each era's own self-image of verbal art.