Biblical Hebrew Poetry

Call For Papers: Biblical Hebrew Poetry will include four sessions. Two sessions invite papers on various aspects of Biblical Hebrew poetry. The third session comprises invited responses to F.W. Dobbs-Alsopp’s volume, On Biblical Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the fourth session is a joint venture with the Book of the Twelve Prophets group. Papers addressing any aspect of Biblical Hebrew poetry are welcome for the first open session. The second open session addresses the current state of the discussion of Hebrew parallelism. It is commonly held that prosodic, semantic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological parallelisms recurrent across the "members" of ancient Hebrew verse - cola, lines, and strophes according to one set of terms - are the chief hallmark of ancient Hebrew verse. This session invites papers on elements and structures in parallelism in ancient Hebrew poetry, with a synthetic description of all examples occurring across a defined corpus of 200 lines or more. Papers presented in this session will be considered for inclusion in a planned volume on "Parallelism in Ancient Hebrew Verse: The State of the Question." We are requiring papers for this session to be turned in by Sept 1 for review by the respondents. Session four is a joint session between the Biblical Hebrew Poetry Group and the Book of the Twelve Prophets Group. This session will explore poetic, rhetorical and other artistic uses of language in the book of the Twelve Prophets. Attention will be given to the role of poetry within the rhetoric of an individual book or the corpus as a whole as well as the role of poetic devices within particular passages or sections of the corpus.

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