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Isaiah 40-66 (20800)

A guide to the study and exegesis of Isaiah 40-66, including LXX, DSS, and a bibliography of reference resources created by Dr. Peter Gentry for 20800, Hebrew Exegesis: Isaiah 40-66.

Hebrew Poetics

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Alonso Schökel, Luis. A Manual of Hebrew Poetics. Roma: Editrice pontificio Istituto biblico, 1988.

Berlin, Adele. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Bullinger, E. W. Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, Explained and Illustrated. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1968.

Collins, Terence. Line-Forms in Hebrew Poetry: A Grammatical Approach to the Stylistic Study of the Hebrew Prophets. Rome: Biblical Institute press, 1978.

Culley, Robert C. Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms. [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, 1967.

Freedman, David Noel. Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: Studies in Early Hebrew Poetry. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

Geller, Stephen A. Parallelism in Early Biblical Poetry. Missoula, Mont: Scholars Press, 1979.

Gray, George Buchanan. The Forms of Hebrew Poetry; Considered with Special Reference to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Old Testament. [New York]: Ktav Pub. House, 1972.

Krašovec, Jože. Antithetic Structure in Biblical Hebrew Poetry. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984.

Kugel, James L. The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Lunn, Nicholas P. Word-order variation in biblical Hebrew poetry: differentiating pragmatics and poetics. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006.

O'Connor, Michael Patrick. Hebrew Verse Structure. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

Petersen, David L., and Kent Harold Richards. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

Watson, Wilfred G. E. Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to Its Techniques. London: T & T Clark, 2005.

Watters, William R. Formula Criticism and the Poetry of the Old Testament. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976.