Whose Voice Is Heard?: Speaker Ambiguity in the Psalms
Several poems in the Hebrew Psalter include voices that may be assigned to more than one speaker. Rather than arguing in favor of one particular speaker and silencing the others, my study approaches this ambiguity of voice as a genuine poetic characteristic. A brief review of ambiguity in the Psalte...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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| In: |
The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-213 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 109
/ Bible. Psalmen 32
/ Bible. Psalmen 45
/ Bible. Jeremia 4
/ Speaker
/ Ambiguity
B Hermeneutics / Poetics |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Discourse
B Psalm 32 B Psalm 45 B Psalters B Poetics B Psalm 109 B Speech B CHRISTIAN biblical hermeneutics B COUNTERPOINT B Voice B Polyphony B Jeremiah 4 |
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| Summary: | Several poems in the Hebrew Psalter include voices that may be assigned to more than one speaker. Rather than arguing in favor of one particular speaker and silencing the others, my study approaches this ambiguity of voice as a genuine poetic characteristic. A brief review of ambiguity in the Psalter more broadly and some hermeneutical inspiration from Jeremiah’s polyphonic discourse provide the necessary foundations for this endeavor. Three case studies (Psalms 109, 32, and 45) model how to hear ambiguous voices rather than resolving and reducing their harmonies. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2020.0082 |