Oral formulaic language in the Biblical psalms / / Robert C. Culley

• Autore: Culley Robert C.
• Pubblicazione: [Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1967; ©1967
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 pages)
• Disciplina: 223.206
• Soggetto topico: POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Oral Formulaic Composition -- 2. The Devices and Characteristics of Oral Formulaic Composition -- 3. Oral Formulaic Composition and Texts -- 4. The Biblical Psalms and Oral Formulaic Composition -- 5. Formulas and Formulaic Systems -- 6. Distribution of the Phrases -- 7. The Theory in Broader Perspective -- Appendix : A Survey of Field-work and Textual Studies -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Oral formulaic language in the biblical psalms
• ISBN: 1-4426-5338-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149429903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Near and Middle East series ; ; 4.