Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible: wordplay as a literary and exegetical device
"An investigation of the use of literary-stylistic metathesis, involving the deliberate transposition (or inversion) of contiguous letters among multiple words in the same context, in the Hebrew Bible, with attention also to this phenomenon in post-biblical Jewish Hebrew compositions"--
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Peabody, Massachusetts
Hendrickson Publishers
November 2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Kalimi, Isaac, 1952-, Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible] (2021) (Rendsburg, Gary A., 1954 -)
[Rezension von: Kalimi, Isaac, 1952-, Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible] (2021) (Faro, Ingrid) [Rezension von: Kalimi, Isaac, 1952-, Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible] (2020) (Gruber, Mayer Irwin, 1944 -) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Wordplay
/ Metathesis (Linguistics)
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| Further subjects: | B
Metathesis
B Bible. Old Testament Language, style B Hebrew language Phonemics |
| Summary: | "An investigation of the use of literary-stylistic metathesis, involving the deliberate transposition (or inversion) of contiguous letters among multiple words in the same context, in the Hebrew Bible, with attention also to this phenomenon in post-biblical Jewish Hebrew compositions"-- 1. Introduction: I. Definition of the theme -- II. State of the research -- III. Purpose and importance -- IV. Methods -- V. Outline of the study -- 2. Linguistic-phonological metathesis -- 3. Textual metathesis due to mistaken reading or writing -- 4. Literary-stylistic metathesis names: I. Introduction to chapters four and five -- II. Personal names inverted in context -- III. Geographical names inverted in context -- IV. Personal and geographical names in one text that are inverted in another -- V. Conclusion -- 5. Literary-stylistic metathesis words: I. Metatheses inverting the whole word/root -- II. Metatheses involving identical letters in the word/root, partially inverted -- III. Metatheses involving partial inversion of the word/root at the same point in each word: A. Torah. B. Latter prophets. C. Former prophets, Psalms, and Wisdom literature -- IV. Metatheses between the beginning or end of one word and the end or beginning of another word -- V. Metatheses involving an exchange between ù; and ù" -- VI. Conclusion -- 6. Literary-stylistic metathesis in the Book of Ben Sira: I. Literary metatheses preserved in the Hebrew manuscripts -- II. Metatheses reconstructed by Moshe Zvi Segal in the portions missing from the Hebrew manuscripts -- III. Conclusion -- 7. Literary-stylistic metathesis in rabbinic literature: I. Personal names -- II. Words and phrases -- III. Anagram -- 8. Conclusion |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165 - 174. - Literaturangaben Englischer Text, teilw. in hebräischer Schrift |
| ISBN: | 1683071794 |