Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Defining Meter; Introduction; Defining Meter; Meter and Rhythm; Phonological Event; Abstract Pattern as Contract; Arrangement by Line with Regularity; Preposed Definition of Meter; Chapter 2: The Categorization fo Metrical Theories for Classical Hebrew Poetry; Introduction; Quantitative; Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 B.C. -- ca. A.D. 45); Josephus (A.D. 37-100); Origen (A.D. 184-254); Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (A.D. 264-340); Pseudo-Justin Martyr (Fourth Century A.D.); Jerome (A.D. 331-420)
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrene (A.D. 386-458); Isadore of Seville (ca. A.D. 580-636); Samuel Archivolti (1515-1611); Franciscus Gomarus (1563-1641); Marcus Meibomius (1630-1711); Sir William Jones (1746-1794); Conrad Gottlob Anton (1770); Egbert Jan Greve (1754-1811); Joachim Bellermann (1813); Summary; Accentual; Ernst Heinrich Meier (1813-1866); Julius Ley (1822-1901); Karl Ferdinand Reinhardt Budde (1850-1935); Eduard Sievers (1850-1932); William Henry Cobb (1846-1923); George Buchanan Gray (1865-1922); Theodore Henry Robinson (1881-?)
Sigmund Olaf Plytt Mowinkcel (1884-1965)William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971); Stanislav Segert (1921- ); Jerzy Kurlowicz (1895-?); Summary; Syllabic; Moshe Ben Shem Tov Ibn Habib (Fifteenth Century A.D.); Abraham Ben David Portaleone; Adalbert Merx (1838-1909); Robert C. Culley (1970); Douglas K. Stuart (1976); David Noel Freedman (1922- ); Summary; Accentual- Syllabic; Francis Hare (1671-1740); Joseph Levin Saalschutz (1801-1863); Summary; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Meterical Analysis of Select Texts; Introduction; The Control Data; The Meterical Control; Syllabic Meter: Japanese Haiku
Accentual Meter: BeowulfAccentual- Syllabic Meter: Shakespeare's Sonnets (I-X); The NonMeterical Control; Birth of Moses (Exod 2:1-10); Ruth 1; Summary; The Texts; Words and Accents; Syllabification and Vocalization; Lamentations 1; Lamentations 2; Lamentations 3; Lamentations 4; Lamentations 5; A Worthy Woman (Prov 31:10-31); Psalm 25; Psalm 34; Psalm 37; Psalm 111; Psalm 112; Psalm 119; Psalm 145; David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam 1:19-27); Conclusions; Regularity; Standard Deviation; Range; Relative Frequency Distribution Histograms; Excursus: Qinah Meter; Chapter 4: Conclusions
BibliographyIndex of Authors, Ancient and Mocern; Studies in Bible and Early Christianity
This study provides three important contributions to the study of biblical Hebrew poetry: first, it surveys scholars of non-biblical, metrical poetry to ascertain how meter is defined in the field of literary criticism; second, it categorizes and critiques all significant proposals regarding meter in biblical Hebrew poetry from the time of Philo to the present; finally, it tests the most viable of the proposals against a large sample of poetic texts from the Hebrew Bible. The author generates statistical profiles for the texs and compares them with similar profiles from two categories of contr
The Question of Meter in Biblical Hebrew Poetry
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2000
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Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston
This study provides three important contributions to the study of biblical Hebrew poetry: first, it surveys scholars of non-biblical, metrical poetry to ascertain how meter is defined in the field of literary criticism; second, it categorizes and...
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This study provides three important contributions to the study of biblical Hebrew poetry: first, it surveys scholars of non-biblical, metrical poetry to ascertain how meter is defined in the field of literary criticism; second, it categorizes and critiques all significant proposals regarding meter in biblical Hebrew poetry from the time of Philo to the present; finally, it tests the most viable of the proposals against a large sample of poetic texts from the Hebrew Bible. The author generates statistical profiles for the texs and compares them with similar profiles from two categories of contr