The Shape of Hebrew Poetry

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The Shape of Hebrew Poetry is written by Matthew Ian Ayars and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900436627X (ISBN 10) and 9789004366275 (ISBN 13).

In The Shape of Hebrew Poetry, Matthew Ayars explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Russian Formalist Roman Jakobson's conceptulisation of linguistic parallelism to the Egpytian Hallel (Psalm 113–118). Other hebraists and biblical Hebrew poetry specialists have long noted the importance of Jakobson's theory of parallelism for poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, however, Ayars is the first to offer an application of Jakobsonian-based analysis to a poetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible.