Psalms And Wisdom Literature Midterm - Part Iv

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We have these distances from the Psalms

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1. chronological
2. cultural
3. theological

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Longman's classifications of genres of Psalms

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1. Hymn
2. Lament
3. Thanksgiving
4. Confidence
5. Rememberance
6. Wisdom
7. Kingship

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Longman says that the five books of the Psalms were intentionally created to parallel

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the five books of Moses

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Each of the five books of the Psalter shows a preference for a particular version of

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the divine name (I, IV, and V: Yahweh; II and III: Elohim)

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Most of the David Psalms are found

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in the first two books of the Psalter

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Longman says the central theological concept behind the Psalms is

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God's covenant with his people

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In the NT, the Psalms are quoted

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more often than any other book

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A psalm often read as "Messianic" in the narrow/prophetic sense

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Psalm 16

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Parallelism refers to

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the correspondence which occurs between the phrases of a poetic line

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A poetic line with two phrases is called a

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bicolon (Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain)

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Historical understandings of the relationship between phrases in Hebrew poetry

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1. A does not = B (the early view)
2. A = B (the traditional approach - Lowth's parallelism)
3. A, what's more, B (the proper approach)-2nd thought carries forward first

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Lowth's three main categories of Parallelism

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synonymous,antithetic, synthetic

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Synonymous parallelism

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repetition of same thought in two different phrases using two different yet closely related sets of words.

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Example of synonymous parallelism

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Psalm 2

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Antithetic Parallelism

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States the same thought twice using antonymns

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Example of antithetic parallelism

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Proverbs 10:1

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Synthetic Parallelism

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those lines in which the second phrase completes or supplements the first (sometimes dismissed as a catch-all category)

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Example of Synthetic Parallelism

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Psalm 2:6

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Categories of Parallelism added to Lowth's big three:

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Emblematic, Repetitive, Pivot pattern, Chiasm,

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Emblematic parallelism

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explicitly draws an anoalogy, often using like/as

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Example of emblematic parallelism

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Psalm 42:1

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Repetative parallelism

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stepladder/climatic parallelism

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Example of repetative parallelism

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Psalm 29

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Pivot pattern parallelism

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A term in the middle refers to two phrases

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Example of pivot pattern parallelism

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Psalm 98:2

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Chiasm

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Form of parallelism which, when diagramed, will take the form of an X

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Example of Chiasm

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Psalm 1

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Semantic Parallelism

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Has to do with the meaning of words

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Grammatical Parallelism

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has to do with morphology and syntax

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Ellipsis

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A poetic device which involves omitting a part of a clause (usually a verb) for the purpose of more closely binding two clauses together.

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Example of Ellipses

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Psalm 88:6

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Secondary poetic device: inclusio

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repetition in poem specifically for opening or closing (Psalm 8:1 & 9)

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Secondary poetic device: acrostic

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first letter of each line forms a recognizable pattern (Psalm 119)

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Meter

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a patterned rhythm that structures a whole poem

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Imagery in the Psalms: simile

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comparison using like or as (psalm 42:1)

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Imagery in the Psalms: metaphor

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comparison which is implicit without mention of like or as (psalm 23)