What’s Wrong with this Picture? Stylistic Variation as a Rhetorical Technique in Judges
This study examines four cases where the narrator of Judges alters an idiom or structural pattern to highlight the presence of irony. The alteration of the collocation ‘enter and close behind’ to ‘go out and close behind’ mirrors Ehud’s deception. Heber’s failure to appear in the Barak story mirrors...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2009
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2009, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-182 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ehud
B stylistic variation B Heber B Poetics B Irony B truncation B Repetition B Samson |
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| Summary: | This study examines four cases where the narrator of Judges alters an idiom or structural pattern to highlight the presence of irony. The alteration of the collocation ‘enter and close behind’ to ‘go out and close behind’ mirrors Ehud’s deception. Heber’s failure to appear in the Barak story mirrors its theme—a woman supplants a man. The absence of a reference to Israel’s crying out for help sets the stage for Samson’s ironic story in which God delivered a people who did not seek deliverance through a deliverer who did not see himself as such. The truncated epitaph in 15.20, followed by an account of Samson’s visit to a prostitute, ominously sets the stage for the story of Samson’s death. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089209356418 |