Marking Closure
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The literary device of stylistic change to indicate closure is barely recognized by biblical scholars. Apart from Aharon Mirsky, who wrote the seminal article and monograph on the subject, very few scholars have paid attention to this technique. The present article summarizes the work of Mirsky and two others (with six examples total), and then proceeds to present an additional nineteen examples of this literary device.
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Aharon Mirsky, “Stylistic Device for Conclusion in Hebrew”, Semitics 5 (1977), pp. 5-23. See also in his monograph, Aharon Mirsky, Signon ʿIvri (Jerusalem, 1999), pp. 11-69, with many more examples. In a few places (nos. 5, 11, and 20), I will cite examples treated by Mirsky, though I present them anew, usually in greater detail and with some fresh information.
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Rendsburg, “Variation in Biblical Hebrew Prose and Poetry”, pp. 212-213.
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Marking Closure
In: Vetus TestamentumSearch for other papers by Gary A. Rendsburg in
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The literary device of stylistic change to indicate closure is barely recognized by biblical scholars. Apart from Aharon Mirsky, who wrote the seminal article and monograph on the subject, very few scholars have paid attention to this technique. The present article summarizes the work of Mirsky and two others (with six examples total), and then proceeds to present an additional nineteen examples of this literary device.
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| Abstract Views | 256 | 21 | 1 |
| Full Text Views | 202 | 6 | 3 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 62 | 6 | 3 |