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Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms /

Culley, Robert

Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms / Robert Culley. - 1 online resource (150 p.) - Heritage .

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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."


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781442653382

10.3138/9781442653382 doi


DISCOUNT-B.
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious.

223.2