Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Verse: Encounters of Sound and Meaning: Essays in Comparative Prosody

by Benjamin Harshav (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

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  Presents the study of the forms of Hebrew poetry. This title examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. It takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, German, Russian, Yiddish, and English poetic forms.