Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetics. By Nicholas P. Lunn
While it is generally accepted that word order is a significant factor in analysing Hebrew poetry, few scholars have tackled the subject in depth. It is therefore good news that this book, a revised doctoral thesis (London, 2004) under Jean-Marc Heimerdinger (who wrote the Foreword), is specifically...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 193-195 |
| Review of: | Word-order variation in biblical Hebrew poetry (Milton Keynes [u.a.] : Paternoster, 2006) (Watson, Wilfred G. E.)
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| Summary: | While it is generally accepted that word order is a significant factor in analysing Hebrew poetry, few scholars have tackled the subject in depth. It is therefore good news that this book, a revised doctoral thesis (London, 2004) under Jean-Marc Heimerdinger (who wrote the Foreword), is specifically on that topic. Nicholas Lunn has set himself the task of analysing verbal clauses using information theory, based on K. Lambrecht, Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents (Cambridge, 1994)., Lunn begins by setting out the problem of word order (ch. 1). While the standard sequence in Hebrew is verb–subject–object, other sequences do occur in narrative or prose texts (but see below). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm133 |