The Earth Mourns
Subtitle: Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic (Academia Biblica, 8)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789004126985
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Religion; Metaphor in the Bible; Bible.; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Prophets; O.T.; Nature in the Bible; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Interior Design - General; O.T; Bible - Study - General; Bible; Language, style
Description: Of scholarship on the nine passages as a group -- Amos 1:2 -- Hosea 4:1-3 -- Jeremiah 4:23-28 -- Jeremiah 12:1-4 -- Jeremiah 12:7-13 -- Jeremiah 23:9-12 -- Isaiah 24:1-20 -- Isaiah 33:7-9 -- Joel 1:5-20 -- The aesthetics of oral traditional poetry and the biblical text. The composition of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. The reception of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. Implications for the study of biblical poetic texts.