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   The Art of Biblical Poetry » Read Now

   by Robert Alter. 230 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

   ...the difference poetry makes in the Bible. I have not attempted a comprehensive treatment of every subgenre of biblical poetry or of all the various poetic insets in the...
   
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   The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings » Read Now

   by Herbert Chanan Brichto. 464 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source...

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   This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source criticism, which maintains that inconsistencies within the text support an atomistic reading of multiple authors. In The Names of God, Brichto brings us his "poetic" reading of Scripture to the Book of Genesis. Using contemporary methods and insights of literary criticism, he examines one of the great inconsistencies within Genesis that have led to the supposition of multiple authors--the assortment of terms or names for the Deity, among them Yahweh and Elohim--and attempts to show the appropriateness of certain of these names to the stories in which they appear. He also looks at a variety of other data within Genesis such as genealogies, eponyms, and chronologies, and shows that their poetical function--their variety, ingenuity, and imaginative whimsy--is vital to the structure of the text as a whole. In finding a unity in this diversity of materials, Brichto makes a strong case for the text as the artistic achievement of a single author.

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   The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism (Chap. I "Parallelism and Poetry") » Read Now

   by Adele Berlin. 182 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
   
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   The Poets of the Old Testament (1912) » Read Now

   by Alex. R. Gordon. 368 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
   
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   The Book of Job: A Commentary » Read Now

   by Norman C. Habel. 588 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of international standing.
   
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   The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity » Read Now

   by E. Ann Matter. 236 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...received as part of the Bible, one of the books of Solomon. Yet neither...and editors, Russian Poetics in Translation, Formalist...4 Oxford: Holden Books Ltd., 1977 p...
   
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   Ecclesiastes: A Commentary » Read Now

   by James L. Crenshaw. 192 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of international standing.
   
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   The Book of Proverbs and Our Search for Wisdom » Read Now

   by Richard J. Clifford. 58 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...and other books of the Bible. King Solomon...celebrated in the Bible both for...Proponents of the tribal theory...the wisdom books do not mention...margins of the Bible...
   
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   Spenser and Biblical Poetics » Read Now

   by Carol V. Kaske. 212 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

   Carol V. Kaske examines how the form, no less than the theology, of Spenser's writings reveals the influence of the Bible and medieval and Renaissance Biblical hermeneutics. Her approach partakes of both the old historicism and the new.

   Spenser and Biblical Poetics is the first comprehensive account...

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   Carol V. Kaske examines how the form, no less than the theology, of Spenser's writings reveals the influence of the Bible and medieval and Renaissance Biblical hermeneutics. Her approach partakes of both the old historicism and the new.

   Spenser and Biblical Poetics is the first comprehensive account of the contradictions and inconsistencies in Spenser's imagery -- particularly in The Faerie Queene. These and his well-known contradictions in doctrine Kaske accepts and celebrates. She shows that Spenser challenges the reader with problems arising from his endorsement of both Protestant and Catholic traditions. She connects Spenser's contradictory style not only with such religious topics (for example, adiaphorism) but also with secular ones such as colonialism, the conflict between nature and culture, and the policies of the Queen. Spenser and Biblical Poetics makes an indispensable contribution to the history of reading in the Renaissance.

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    Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible into Poetry » Read Now

    by James H. Sims, Leland Ryken. 214 pgs.

    Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

    ...Miltons poetic style and...single book of the Bible and show...three epic books in the Bible...about the poetic strategies of visionary poetry in the Bible, the...