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It has been observed that no book has suffered a more marked disjunction between traditional readings and modern historical-critical ones than the book of Psalms. The form-critical method of Gunkel and Mowinckel revealed the psalter’s cultic aspect, which stood far removed from its use in Christian piety and worship. Brown’s book is an attempt to restore the poetic and imaginative ...
Sep 5, 2024 · A simile is a literary device that describes an experience or object by comparing it to a different experience or object. Similes are always introduced with a comparison word such as like or as. One of the most beautiful examples of simile in the Bible is found in Psalm 42:1: “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you ...
May 12, 2008 · The psalmists describe their bodies as melting like wax, dry like a potsherd, a taunt, a scorn, shaking bones, and so on. Those who persecute the psalmist are described as raging bulls, dogs, lions, arrows lying in wait, devouring mouths, pregnant with mischief, a deceitful tongue, a snaring fowler, and so on.
Jul 14, 2014 · The same ones who wonder about camels and needles. The same ones who want a literal thousand year kingdom on the earth instead of an eternal kingdom in Heaven. The reason one group didn’t fall for the other fallacy was not their understanding of how to use figurative language, i.e., the same way we use it every day of lives.
- Parallelism in The Psalms
- Interpreting The Parallelism
- Artistry and Aesthetics
- Emotional Expression
Parallelism is, quite simply, the relationship between the two (or more) parts of a single line. Almost every poetic line exists in two halves, which often seem to be saying much the same thing. We might take, for example, the opening of Psalm 24: One basic sentiment is being expressed here, but it is expressed twice in a single verse. The analysis...
On the level of semantics, or meaning, things get somewhat more complicated. Early examinations of biblical poetry, especially by the eighteenth-century British scholar Robert Lowth, to whom we are indebted for introducing the concept of parallelism, tended to divide poetic lines into three categories: synonymous, in which both parts of the line sa...
This artistry can be seen in a number of facets, beyond just the parallelism on the level of the individual line. Many psalms have verbal and structural elements that span the entire poetic piece, words or phrases that call back to or prepare the way for ideas elsewhere in the psalm. We find psalms that are structured chiastically (same or similar ...
Poetry has been understood, from the ancient Greeks who theorized about it to our modern society, as the highest means of expression. This has to do with the aesthetic pleasure we derive from a well-crafted poem, to be sure, but also with poetry’s ability to concentrate emotions into a concise and accessible form. Perhaps the best known psalm in th...
Aug 13, 2013 · Similes: It is a figure of speech in which a likeness between two different things is stated using the words ‘like’ or ‘as.’ Examples of similes in A Psalm of Life are, 1. Still, like muffled drums, are beating 2. Be not like dumb, driven cattle! METAPHORS:
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than simile does, inasmuch as it asserts identity rather than similarity, but in the Psalms the two figures communi-cate the same content. The only real difference between them is semantic: a simile tells a literal truth, while a metaphor is literally a lie. Comparison is the essential feature of metaphor, but
