The Redactional Meaning of the Thanksgiving Hymns - Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Heterogeneous Collection

Klappentext Hasselbalch asserts that current theories about the social background of Thanksgiving Hymns are unable to explain its heterogeneous character. Instead the author suggests a reading strategy that leaves presumptions about the underlying social contexts aside to instead consider the collection's hybridity as a clue to understanding the collection as a whole. Hasselbalch applies Systemic Functional Linguistics to four Hodayot compositions which show signs of hybridity. Analysis reveals that the speaker in some of the so-called leader hymns as well as in compositions not normally designated leader hymns appears to have the role of a mediator in the agency of God-a feature that distinguishes the hodayot from biblical psalms. This characteristic can be seen as a common denominator that unifies the collection.

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• Autori: Trine Hasselbalch, Trine Bj rnung Hasselbalch, Trine Bj°rnung Hasselbalch, Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch
• Editore: Society of Biblical Literature
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9781628370560
• ISBN: 978-1-62837-056-0
• Pagine: 312
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Ebraismo