Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Saturday, 27 June 2009

Questions to ask a Biblical poem

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As anyone who follows this blog will have noticed by now, I am working on an interpretation of Psalm 24, trying to take into account its tex...
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Friday, 12 June 2009

A "canonical" translation of Isaiah 1:2?

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How do you translate the qatal verbs in Isaiah 1:2? שִׁמְעוּ שָׁמַיִם וְהַאֲזִינִי אֶרֶץ כִּי יהוה דִּבֵּר בָּנִים גִּדַּלְתִּי וְרוֹמַמְתִּ...
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Monday, 8 June 2009

Powerful readings of R. Alter's Psalms translation on BCC Radio 4.

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Ros of Conversational Theology has just posted a link to a most beautiful edition of BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please . The evening is entire...
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Saturday, 6 June 2009

A brief response to Niccacci on verbs in Hebrew poetry, with an illustration from Isaiah.

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I briefly introduced Niccacci's theory on the translation of Hebrew verbs in Hebrew poetry in my post Translating a qatal / yiqtol seque...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009

Poetic yiqtol as a "deictic centre shift"?

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In response to my question on the Biblical Hebrew List on how to translate the yiqtol in Ps 24:2, a certain Vadim Cherny has kindly e-maile...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Second-line information in a poetic yiqtol clause?

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Two Psalms experts have kindly weighed in on my attempt to use Niccacci's theory of the verbal system in Hebrew poetry to translate Ps 2...
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Monday, 4 May 2009

Translating a qatal/yiqtol sequence in Ps 24:2 (drawing on Niccacci)

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Ps 24:2 reads as follows: כִּי־הוּא עַל־יַמִּים יְסָדָהּ וְעַל־נְהָרוֹת יְכוֹנְנֶהָ We have here a typical example of a qatal // yiqtol sequ...
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Friday, 1 May 2009

Bibliography for the verbal system in Biblical Hebrew poetry

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I recently posted a request for tips on resources for this topic to two Internet discussion groups dedicated to Biblical studies: Jim West...
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Friday, 2 January 2009

A Christmas poem

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The following poem by New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III , posted on his blog here (along with thoughts on the virgin conception), ...
Monday, 11 August 2008

The Passing of a Palestinian Poet: Mahmoud Darwish

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Laila of Raising Yousuf and Noor informs us that the celebrated Palestinian poet passed away yesterday. I have often heard of this poet, bu...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Quote of the Day: Theopoetics

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Before the message there must be the vision, before the sermon the hymn, before the prose the poem. The structures of faith and confession h...
Thursday, 31 January 2008

Poetry Wilderness

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“The poetic imagination is marginal within our dominant scientific culture. This tends towards a deadening literalism. In most traditional s...
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Friday, 21 December 2007

An Awesome Cyber-Psalm

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I don't know about you, but watching those interviews with Fred Phelps and his cronies yesterday made me feel dirty. As a remedy to that...
Thursday, 6 December 2007

Adventsgedanken von Jochen Klepper

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The following is a poem by the German Lutheran novelist and poet Jochen Klepper (1903-1942). It's about Advent and hits the nail on the...
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