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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Biblical poetry and the art of close reading</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Couey, J. Blake</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>James, Elaine T.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2018</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Words that devour : discursive praxes and structural strategies in Psalm 50 / Carolyn J. Sharp -- 'Silence is praise' : art and knowledge in Psalm 65 / Elaine T. James -- The glory of creation in Psalm 104 / Robert Alter -- Bildad lectures Job : a close reading of Job 8 / Edward L. Greenstein -- Poetry as pedagogy in Proverbs 5 / Anne W. Stewart -- The unity and futility of poetry in Qohelet / Simeon Chavel -- Structure, sound, and sense : a close reading of chapter one of the Song of Songs / Tod Linafelt -- How is a love poem (Song 4:1-7) like the beloved? The importance of emotion in reading biblical poetry / Sarah Zhang -- Isaiah's love song : a reading of Isaiah 5:1-7 / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Poetry, language, and statecraft in Isaiah 18 / J. Blake Couey -- The servant in poetic juxtaposition in Isaiah 49:1-13 / Katie M. Heffelfinger -- 'It is a lamentation -- it has become a lamentation!' : subverting genre in Ezekiel 19 / Sean Burt -- The enduring day of wrath : Zephaniah 1, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Dies Irae / Julia M. O'Brien -- YHWH's poesie : the Gnadenformel (Exodus 34:6b-7), the book of Exodus, and beyond / Brent A. Strawn -- The decipherment of sorrow : David's lament in 2 Samuel 1:17-27 / Steven Weitzman. </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by J. Blake Couey, Elaine T. James</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible. Old Testament Language, style.Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.Hebrew poetry, Biblical History and criticism</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS1405.52  .B53 2018</classification>
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