RT Book T1 Constituent Postponement in Biblical Hebrew Verse T2 Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes JF Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes A1 Redd, John Scott LA English PP Wiesbaden PB Harrassowitz Verlag YR 2014 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/812901584 AB What are the elements of Biblical Hebrew (BH) verse? Much headway has been made in terms of describing the features and devices that find expression in BH verse, but there is more to be said particularly about the distinction between verse and prose. Though BH verse is governed by a terse poetic line, it also exhibits "relaxed" syntactic structure, wherein certain syntactic constructions that would be unviable in prose are acceptable. One such construction is the occurrence of constituent postponement in the verbal clause, such as postverbal subject- and object-postponement as well as verb-pos OP 168 NO Description based upon print version of record CN BS1405.2 .R384 2014 SN 978-3-447-10199-8 K1 Electronic books