Hebrew Poetry 2 Review Title – Praise - PowerPoint Presentation

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Hebrew Poetry

2Slide2

Review

Title – Praise

Written – over 1000 yrs.

Collected in groups & booklets

Used as Song Book

Quoted in N.T. Slide3

The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man.”

- Gen. 2:23Slide4

Lamech

said to his wives

,

“Adah and Zillah,

Listen to my voice,

You wives of

Lamech,Give heed to my speech,For I have killed a man for wounding me;And a boy for striking me;If Cain is avenged sevenfold,Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

- Gen. 4:23-24Slide5

Poetry is Distinguished by:

The

emotional and imaginative character of its

thoughtsSlide6

Poetry is Distinguished by:

The emotional and imaginative character of its thoughts

Exalted diction, lofty ideas, noble

expressionsSlide7

Poetry is Distinguished by:

The emotional and imaginative character of its thoughts

Exalted diction, lofty ideas, noble

expressions

RhythmSlide8

Then

Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel

,

“

O sun, stand still at

Gibeon,

And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”

- Joshua

10:12Slide9

So the sun stood still, and the moon

stopped,

Until

the nation avenged themselves of their

enemies.

Is

it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

- Joshua

10:13Slide10

Classification of Hebrew Poetry:

Gnomic

– Wisdom Poetry

Job

, ProverbsSlide11

Classification of Hebrew Poetry:

Lyric

–

Expressive

Psalms – praise

Lamentations – mourning

Blessings and curses

MosesSlide12

And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from

Seir

unto them; he shined forth from mount

Paran

, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.And he was king in

Jeshurun

, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

- Deut. 33:1-5 - KJVSlide13

Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. He said

,

“The Lord came from Sinai,

And dawned on them from

Seir

;

He shone forth from Mount Paran,And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones;At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.“Indeed, He loves the people;All Your holy ones are in Your hand,

And they followed in Your steps;

Everyone receives of Your words.

“Moses charged us with a law,

A possession for the assembly of Jacob.

“And He was king in

Jeshurun

,

When the heads of the people were gathered,

The tribes of Israel together.

- Deut. 33:1-5 - NASBSlide14

Lyric Poetry

Tribal songs

Lamech

(Genesis

4:23)

Mashals

– lessons/parables

Samson’s riddle

(Judges

14:14)Slide15

Lyric Poetry

Paeans

–

Songs of

Victory

Moses

at the Red Sea(Exodus 15:1-18)

Dirges

– Funeral

songs

David’s lament

(II

Samuel 1:17-27

)Slide16

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Rhythm

–

Lines

/

Stichs Save me, O God, by Your name,

And vindicate me by Your power.

Hear my prayer, O God;

Give ear to the words of my mouth.

- Psalm 54:1-2Slide17

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Rhythm

Rhyme

No rhyme scheme

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Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Devices

Assonance

– Similar sounding words with different

meanings

Jer

. 1:11-12:

Almond – “

Shaqued

”

Watching –

“

Shoqued

”Slide19

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Devices

Acrostic

– successive

lines

in

alphabetical order

Ps

.

25:1-22

Lam

. 3:1-66Slide20

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Devices

Parallelism

Robert

Lowth

(1700’s)

Rhythm

of ideas and

thoughtsSlide21

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Synonymous

– same idea, different words

– Ps. 119:1-4

How blessed are those whose way is blameless,

Who

walk in the law of the Lord.

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,

Who seek Him with all their heart.

They also do no unrighteousness;

They walk in His ways.

You have ordained Your precepts,

That

we should keep them diligently.Slide22

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Antithetic

– second line

contrasts

the first – Ps. 30:5

For His anger is but for a moment,

His favor is for a lifetime;Weeping may last for the night,

But a shout of joy comes in the morning.Slide23

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Synthetic

– Second line completes the first – Ps. 2:5-6

Then He will speak to them in His anger

And terrify them in His fury, saying,

“But as for Me, I have installed My King

Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”Slide24

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Introverted

– A – B – B – A

– Proverbs

23:15

My son, if your heart is wise,My own heart also will be glad;Slide25

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Climactic

–

Stairlike

– Ps

. 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord,

The floods have lifted up their voice,

The floods lift up their pounding waves.Slide26

Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry

Emblematic

– comparisons (like or as) – Ps. 103:12-13

As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.Slide27

What is man that You take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

- Ps. 8:4Slide28

But one has testified somewhere, saying,

“What is man, that You remember him?

Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?

“You have made him for a little while lower than the angels;

You have crowned him with glory and honor,

And have appointed him over the works of Your hands;

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

- Heb. 2:6-8Slide29

Summary

Most ancient writings are in poetic

formSlide30

Summary

Most ancient writings are in poetic

form

Old Testament Poetry

Gnomic

(

wisdom)Lyric

(to sing)Slide31

Summary

Most ancient writings are in poetic

form

Old Testament Poetry

Old Testament Poetry

has

special

features

:

Assonance

Acrostics

Parallelism