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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Main Author: Chisholm, Robert B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
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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