Reading Creation -- Repetition with Variation: The Animals in the Flood Story (Genesis 6-9) -- Repetition with Variation: The Plagues Narrative (Exodus 7-10) -- Repetition with Variation: The Balaam Narrative (Numbers 22-24) -- An Introduction to Alliteration, and Alliteration in the Book of Genesis -- Alliteration in the Exodus Narrative -- Micah 1: The Case for Alliteration -- Confused Language -- Repetition with Variation: Prose Narratives -- Alliteration in Prose Narratives -- Alliteration in the Legal-Cultic Material -- Repetition with Variation: Legal and Cultic Texts -- Marking Closure -- Marking Closure (Writ Large) -- Repetition with Variation: Poetic and Prophetic Texts -- Alliteration in Poetic and Prophetic Texts -- Wordplay -- Wordplay on Names -- The Use of wa-hinne 'and behold' -- Shorter before Longer - and Divergences Therefrom -- When Was All This Written? -- A Challenge to the Documentary Hypothesis -- Israelian Hebrew -- Style-Switching -- Addressee-Switching -- Telling and Retelling: Variation within Direct Speech -- Form Follows Content -- Some Final Oddities -- Genesis 29: Putting It All together.
Summary:
"A book focusing on the nexus between language and literature in the Bible, with specific attention to how the former is used to create the latter; topics include wordplay, wordplay with proper names, alliteration, repetition with variation, dialect representation, intentionally confused language, marking closure, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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