Directions in Biblical Hebrew Poetry

in Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

by Walter Brueggemann, David Noel Freedman, Duane L. Christensen, John T. Willis, David J. A. Clines, Jerome T. Walsh, Theodore Hiebert, Adele Berlin, Harris Lenowitz, Michael O'Connor, Elaine R. Follis, Sylvia Huberman Scholnick, Carole Fontaine, William J. Urborck, Alan J. Hauser, and Bernhard W. Anderson

Inner Books

This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently

• A response to "The Song of Miriam" by Bernhard Anderson by Walter Brueggemann
• Another Look at Biblical Hebrew Poetry by David Noel Freedman
• Narrative Poetics and the Interpretation of The Book of Jonah by Duane L. Christensen
• Alternating (ABA'B') Parallelism in the Old Testament Psalms and Prophetic Literature by John T. Willis
• The Parallelism of Greater Precision by David J. A. Clines
• The Case for the Prosecution: Isa 41:21-42:17 by Jerome T. Walsh
• The Use of Inclusion in Habakkuk 3 by Theodore Hiebert
• On the Interpretation of Psalm 133 by Adele Berlin
• The Mock-Simcha of Psalm 137 by Harris Lenowitz
• The Pseudosorites: A Type of Paradox in Hebrew Verse by Michael O'Connor
• The Holy City as Daughter by Elaine R. Follis
• Job 38-41 by Sylvia Huberman Scholnick
• Folktale Structure in the Bok of Job: A Formalist Reading by Carole Fontaine
• Samon: A Play for Voices by William J. Urborck
• Two Songs of Victory: A Comparison of Exodus 15 and Judges 5 by Alan J. Hauser
• The Song of Miriam Poetically and Theologically Considered by Bernhard W. Anderson