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Book Description

Title:
The Poetry of Our Lord. An Examination of the Formal Elements of Hebrew Poetry in the Discourses of Jesus Christ
Author:
Publication Year:
Location:
Oxford
Publisher:
Clarendon Press
Pages:
182
Subjects:
Hebrew Poetry, Jesus Christ, Teaching
Copyright Holder:
Public domain

Charles Fox Burney [1868-1925], The Poetry of Our Lord. An Examination of the Formal Elements of Hebrew Poetry in the Discourses of Jesus Christ

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  1. The Formal Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry
    • Parallelism
      • Synonymous
      • Antithetic
      • Synthetic or Constructive
    • Rhythm
      • Four-beat
      • Three-beat
      • Kina
    • The Principles of Stress-Accentuation in Hebrew Poetry
    • Appended note on the theory of Rabbi Azariah
  2. The Use of Parallelism by Our Lord
    • Synonymous Parallelism
    • Antithetic Parallelism
    • Synthetic Parallelism
    • Step-Parallelism
    • A further point of connexion between the Fourth Gospel and the Synoptists
  3. The Use of Rhythm by Our Lord
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Four-beat Rhythm
    • Three-beat Rhythm
    • Kina-Rhythm
  4. The Use of Rhyme By Our Lord
    • Rhyme almost unused in most of the literary poetry of the Old Testament
    • Its use in the Folk-poetry of the Hebrews
    • Its use in the Gnomic literature of the Hebrews
    • Enhanced facilities for Rhyme offered by Aramaic
    • Illustrations of the use of Rhyme by our Lord
  • Index of Biblical References