ASCENT TO DARKER HILLS: PSALM 121 AND ITS POETIC REVISION
‘Ascent to Darker Hills’ offers an intertextual reading of Psalm 121. By reading the psalm in tandem with a rabbinic midrash and with D.H. Lawrence's short poem, ‘The Hills’, this paper shows (a) how the intertextual revision makes manifest a gap in the psalm as it moves from question to affirm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1997
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Literature and theology
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 152-167 |
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| Summary: | ‘Ascent to Darker Hills’ offers an intertextual reading of Psalm 121. By reading the psalm in tandem with a rabbinic midrash and with D.H. Lawrence's short poem, ‘The Hills’, this paper shows (a) how the intertextual revision makes manifest a gap in the psalm as it moves from question to affirmation and (b) how awareness of such a gap leads one to reconsider the psalm's symbolism of the hills to which the psalmist has lifted his eyes. Against the near-consensus interpretation of the psalm among biblical scholars, the intertextual reading underscores the genuineness of the psalm's question and darkens the psalm's hills with a perception of danger. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/11.2.152 |