The earth mourns : prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic /

Hayes, Katherine Murphey.

The earth mourns : prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic / Katherine M. Hayes. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2002. - xiv, 286 p. ; 23 cm. - Academia Biblica ; no. 8 . - Academia Biblica (Series) (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 8. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and indexes.

Summary of scholarship on the nine passages as a group -- Amos 1:2 -- Hosea 4:1-3 -- Jeremiah 4:23-28 -- Jeremiah 12:1-4 -- Jeremiah 12:7-13 -- Jeremiah 23:9-12 -- Isaiah 24:1-20 -- Isaiah 33:7-9 -- Joel 1:5-20 -- The aesthetics of oral traditional poetry and the biblical text. The composition of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. The reception of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. Implications for the study of biblical poetic texts -- Appendix: Recurrent roots and words in the nine passages

1589830342 (alk. paper)

2002010938


Bible.--Prophets--Language, style.


Nature in the Bible.
Metaphor in the Bible.

BS1505.6.N34 H39 2002 / 14544

224/.066

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