Metra Ugaritica
Pro Et Contra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2818995 |
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| Authors | John Wansbrough |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-234 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00078812 |
| OpenAlex | W2117428007 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Amongst the contributions to a recent volume commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Ugaritic studies is a paper devoted to analysis of the problems involved in description of Semitic prosody. While the data adduced there are explicitly limited to Ugaritic and Hebrew verse, the author's method entails consideration of such general matters as the definition of metre and parallelism. Since these are, as is well known, the traditional parameters in virtually every discussion of Biblical poetry, Professor Pardee's study evokes (and is clearly intended so to do) examination of all the categories and terms hitherto employed to describe the several and occasionally disparate phenomena collectively adduced as evidence of poetic composition. Historical surveys of the subject are now abundant, more or less easily accessible and not very often undertaken except as preface to special pleading on behalf of one or other of the criteria so far discerned for distinguishing poetry from prose
Art · Biblical studies · Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Library science · Linguistics · Literature · Parallelism (grammar) · Pleading · Poetry · Political science · Prosody · Subject (documents) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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