Osnova sekce

    • Overview

      • What is poetry?
      • Parallelism
      • Meter and rhytm
      • Simile and metaphor

    • Comment

      Significant part of the Old Testament is written as poetry. The main form of biblical Hebrew poetry is parallelism. While it is difficult to discover meter in Hebrew poetry (that is, some kind of rhytmic regularity), it is clear, that rhythm is not altogether absent from Hebrew poetry. 

      The biblical imagery is typically expressed by means of the simile or metaphor.

    • Literature for individual study

      Culler, Jonathan D. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 69-81.
      Petersen, David L., and Kent Harold Richards. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1992, 1-63.

    • Culler, Jonathan D. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 69-81. Soubor
    • Petersen, David L., and Kent Harold Richards. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1992, 1-63. Soubor

    • Verifying comprehension

      1. Explain the mimetic theory of poetry.
      2. What kind of parallelism can be found in Hebrew poetry?