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The art of Biblical poetry de Robert Alter
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The art of Biblical poetry (edició 2011)

de Robert Alter

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Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispe… (més)
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Títol:The art of Biblical poetry
Autors:Robert Alter
Informació:New York : Basic Books, c2011.
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For me the best part of this book is its treatment of the Book of Job, in the two chapters, "Structures of Intensification" and "Truth and Poetry In the Book of Job." The Book of Job is a poem, of course, and Alter, taking it as poetry and not just as a story that could have been told in prose, finds meanings in God's answer to Job that I had never quite heard before -- had never quite felt or visualized before. Poetry is, among many things, a language of images, and the images used by God are direct answers to those used by Job, to summarize Alter's argument perhaps too simply.

As Alter puts it, there is a "nice match of meaning and imagery" between Job's famous death-wish poem and God's answer.

The first chapters of Alter's book are the hardest going, as he lays the groundwork. He explains the particular structure of Biblical poetry -- how one line of poetry consists of two "versets," the second usually intensifying or specifying the meaning expressed in the first.

Once that ground is explained, the book takes off with close readings of poems like Job, Psalms, Proverbs. And once you've been alerted that meaning is tied into form, you can never read these texts the same way again.

Here Alter gets into questions such as:

- why poetry should be the best way to imagine the voice of God

- how the intensification in each line of poetry was ideally suited for the social and ethical criticisms of the Prophets, for Jobian complaints or Psalmodic pleas for help, as distinct from the kind of themes expressed in sonnets or in Whitman's verse

- how the author of the Book of Job compares to Shakespeare in his use of language

I also liked the chapter on Proverbs, which is the Bible book that can be seen as containing the most simplistic theology; Alter, reading it as poetry, finds subtlety and even riddles, not just in the surface language but in the theology.

Interesting and helpful all around. ( )
  krosero | Feb 1, 2022 |
Difficult to get into for an amateur's review.

First half is a review of poetic techniques identifiable in the biblical writings. Second half is an exploration of ways to look at the writing with fresh perspective.

All in all, a helpful book, but not to be read without direction dedication. ( )
  HippieLunatic | Jan 17, 2021 |
An excellent analysis of the poetics of verse in the Hebrew Bible. The author first demonstrates the existence of Hebrew poetry and then speaks in general of its basic elements, including parallelism and intensification/specification/consquentiality, etc. within the parallel lines and passages. The author then looks at the specific nature of the various types of poetry: that which is expressed in the book of Job, the Psalms, the Prophets, Proverbs, and finally, the Song of Solomon.

The author does well at re-establishing the integrity of Biblical verse as poetry and demonstrates the value of more holistic readings of the texts at hand. His attention to detail helps the reader to better understand at least some of the nuances and subtle forms of communication used within Biblical poetry.

This is a critical resource for properly reading Biblical poetry. ( )
  deusvitae | Oct 2, 2009 |
A stunning work, opening up new understandings about biblical poetry on almost every page. ( )
  Bibliophial | Jan 3, 2007 |
NO OF PAGES: 228 SUB CAT I: Torah Commentary SUB CAT II: Art SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: The author of "The Art of Biblical Poetry" provides a fresh interpretation of the poetry of the Old Testament and a lucid, original account of how biblical poetry works.NOTES: SUBTITLE:
  BeitHallel | Feb 18, 2011 |
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Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispe

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