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Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms

Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms

C. Culley, Robert

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismBible StudiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1442639598
ISBN13: 9781442639591
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1967
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms, Robert C. Culley discusses dynamics involved in oral composition of poetry, particularly regarding Biblical poetry, including the characteristic of parallelism, both as a composition device and as a framework within which other compositional aids would be necessary for a poet writing orally. Formulas, together with such devices as standard word-pairs, aided poets in composing regular lines within a literary tradition whose primary characteristic was parallelism of ideas. Poets use formulas to build lines, Culley explains; the line and the colon, of which the line generally has two, are the most common formal divisions of Hebrew poetry to which possible formulas and formulaic phrases would conform.

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