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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hebrew Poetry of the Old Testament |
 | | Poetry, thus inspired, glances to and fro, is guided by changing moods, darts upon living objects, and describes them from its own centre. | | | Hebrew forms of verse have been much disputed over; but the combination of a lively picturesque meaning with a definite measure is beyond denial in the places alleged. | | | Much of all this Holy Scripture has handed down to us. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12174b.htm
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| | Arabic poetry - definition of Arabic poetry in Encyclopedia |
| | The term Arabic poetry usually refers to the poetry of the wider historic Arab empire from the 6th to the 14th Century, during which it attained great richness and versatility. | | | The flowering of Arabic poetry in Sufi traditions. | | | The flowering of Arabic poetry in Andalucia (Islamic Spain). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Arabic_poetry
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| | Hebrew Poetry |
| | It is important, before coming to any definite conclusion, to take into consideration the fact that the poetry of the Old Testament belongs to periods separated by many centuries, from the Song of Deborah (Judges 5), the earliest Hebrew poem, down to the last hymns in the Psalter. | | | Poetry in Non-poetical Books: There is a large amount of poetry in the Old Testament outside the books usually classed as poetical: (a) poetry in the prophetical books (see above, III, 2); (b) poetry in the historical books including the Pentateuch (see Michael Heilprin, The Historical Poetry of the Hebrews, 2 volumes, 1879-80). | | | Hebrew poetry is destitute of meter in the strict sense, and also of rhyme, though this last occurs in some isolated cases (see below, III, 1, [4], c and e). |
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http://www.bible-researcher.com/hebrew-poetry.html
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| | Chinese art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Emphasis was placed on the spiritual qualities of the painting and on the ability of the artist to reveal the inner harmony of man and nature, as perceived according to Taoist and Buddhist concepts. | | | As a consequence of the Dynasty's openness to foreign influences, and renewed exchanges with Indian culture due to the numerous travels of Chinese Buddhist monks to India from the 4th to the 11th century, Tang dynasty Buddhist sculpture assumed a rather classical form, inspired by the Indian art of the Gupta period. | | | Wang Xizhi was a famous Chinese calligrapher who lived in the 4th century AD. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art
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| | ipedia.com: Poetry Article |
| | The greater part of the world's sacred scriptures are made up of poetry rather than prose. | | | Poetry is also often closely identified with liturgy in these societies, as the formal nature of poetry makes it easier to remember priestly incantations or prophecies. | | | Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/poetry_1.html
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| | Using Hebrew Poetry |
| | There are many different styles of Hebrew poetry as found in the Bible but, one in particular can assist us with uncovering the ancient meanings of Hebrew words. | | | Now we look up each of these verses in the Bible and examine the poetry within them. | | | We now know that the Hebrew word for "believe" is "aman" and has a very different meaning from our understanding of "believe". |
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http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/20_poetry.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Kannada language |
| | Kannada is mainly spoken in Karnataka in India, and to a good extent in the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and in Kerala. | | | Until thirteenth century, Kannada literary works employed letters 'rh', 'lh(zh)', whose manner of articulation most plausibly could be akin to those in present day Malayalam. | | | The language has 52 letters phonemic and according to academic profile 49 letters are present in Kannada language. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Kannada-language
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| | Poetry - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The greater part of the world's sacred scriptures are made up of poetry rather than prose. | | | A further complication is that prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of prose. | | | In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/poetry.htm
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| | Epic poetry - definition of Epic poetry in Encyclopedia |
| | The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. | | | By extension, the word "epic" is used in reference to any fictional work that follows the broad stylistic and thematic conventions of epic poetry, namely high language, historical or pseudo-historical settings, and hero-worship. | | | Epic of King Gesar (Tibetan; compiled in 11th century from earlier sources) |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Epic_poetry
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| | An introduction to Chinese literature |
| | Wang Wei, a meditative philosopher and painter with Buddhist inclinations, depicted the serenity of nature's beauty; it has been said that poetry is in his pictures and pictures are in his poems. | | | The spread of Buddhism from India, the invention of printing, and the flowering of poetry and prose illuminated the entire period and made it one of the most brilliant in Chinese literary history. | | | The greatest Chinese poetry was created during the Tang (Tang) dynasty (618-907), a period of general peace and prosperity ending in a decline. |
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http://www.china-on-site.com/literatu/intro.htm
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| | Hebrew Poetry |
| | Another technique in Hebrew poetry is the alphabetic acrostic-the first Hebrew letter in a line is the first letter of the alphabet, the second is the second letter of the alphabet, and so on. | | | At least six kinds of parallelism have been distinguished in Hebrew poetry: (1) Synonymous parallelism. | | | Hebrew poetry is also characterized by vivid figures of speech: (1) Simile, A comparison between two things that resemble one another in some way (see Ps. |
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http://www.ovrlnd.com/Teaching/Hebrew_Poetry.html
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| | Poetry - Internet-Encyclopedia.com |
| | The greater part of the world's sacred scriptures are made up of poetry rather than prose. | | | Poetry can be differentiated most of the time from prose, which is language meant to convey meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way, frequently using more complete logical or narrative structures than poetry does. | | | In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose. |
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http://www.internet-encyclopedia.com/ie/p/po/poetry_1.html
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| | Arabic Theory and Criticism, Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism |
| | The first attempts to develop a systematic study of poetry started around the end of the ninth century, and by the tenth century the study of poetry became a prestigious activity to which whole treatises and books could be devoted. | | | In relation to poetry, imaginative representation is divided into two types: necessary imaginative representation, and the other which is not necessary but imperative and well-liked for its being a complement to the necessary and an aid in arousing the soul to the pursuit of or avoidance of the intended object. | | | Poetry was also able to negotiate for itself a space within society that was for a long period relatively free of religious coercion or interference. |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/free/arabic_theory_and_criticism.html
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| | "The Hermeneutics of Biblical Lyric Poetry" by Daniel J. Estes |
| | Because poetry is "the most concentrated and complex use of language there is, and it is used as a means of communication by men and women who live more richly and intensely than we do," | | | The interpreter of lyric poetry must meditate on the language, letting the words work on his mind and feelings, until the message of the author becomes apparent. | | | This article (a) investigates how lyric poetry is treated in the disciplines of literary criticism and pedagogy, (b) isolates the salient distinctives of lyric poetry, particularly in its language and form, and (c) suggests guidelines for interpreting biblical lyric poetry informed by the insights of literary criticism. |
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http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_lyric_estes.html
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| | Islamic History in Arabia and Middle East |
| | Their poetry obeys strict conventions, both in form and content, which indicates that it must have had a long period of development before it was finally committed to writing by scholars. | | | The linguists and exegetes of Kufa and Basra began collecting this poetry in the eighth century because of the light it threw on unusual expressions and grammatical structures in the Quran and the hadith. | | | Poetry, of course, has been cultivated in Arabia since the pre-Islamic period, and it has lately been influenced by new forms and subjects. |
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http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/ihame/Ref5.htm
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| | Kannada poetry |
| | The fact that holds testament to the greatness of Kannada poetry is that it has won seven Jnanapeeth awards, the highest for any Indian language. | | | Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka state of India. | | | This indeed was the reincarnation of Kannada poetry which was dormat for quite a few centuries in the face of British occupation of India. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Kannada_poetry.html
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| | Indian epic poetry - definition of Indian epic poetry in Encyclopedia |
| | Hero-worship was and is a central aspect of Indian culture, and thus readily lent itself to a literary tradition that abounded in epic poetry and literature. | | | It is considered a great classic of Hindi epic poetry and literature, and shows the author Tulsidas in complete command over all the important styles of composition - narrative, epic, lyrical and dialectic. | | | The ancient Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, laid the cornerstone for much of Hindu religion. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Indian_epic_poetry
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| | Arabic literature on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The first significant Arabic literature was produced during the medieval golden age of lyric poetry, from the 4th to the 7th cent. | | | Poetry regained some prestige under the Umayyads, when al-Akhtal (c.640-c.710) and al-Farazdaq (c.640-732) wrote their lyric works. | | | The next great period of Arabic literature was a result of the rise of the new Arabic-Persian culture of Baghdad, the new capital of the Abbasids, in the 8th and 9th cent. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/arabicli.asp
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| | Biblical poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the ancient Hebrews themselves. | | | Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. | | | The poetry of the ancient Hebrews is not distinguished from the other parts of the Old Testament by rhythm based on quantity, though in view of Greek and Roman poetry it was natural to seek such a rhythm in the songs and Psalms of the Old Testament. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_poetry
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| | ISLAMIC POETRY |
| | The earliest known form of Arabic literature is the 'heroic poetry' of the noble tribes prior to the advent of Islam in the region. | | | A lot of her poetry speaks of her brothers, Sakhr and Muwaiya, killed in the various tribal battles pre-dating the advent of Islam. | | | In Arabic poetry, the definite unit of such a poem is referred to as the 'line.' Therefore, each line was polished to perfection with its overall poetic structure not as important. |
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http://sisterscouncilhalaqa.org/poetry.html
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| | Job: Hebrew Poetry |
| | That does not mean poetry can not talk about universal truths, rather it permits the reader to discover the universal truth on his own. | | | Poetry is coupled often with music, perhaps because they speak the same language, the language of the heart. | | | Poetry may even appear intentionally indirect, as it attempts to make a surprise ending a real surprise for the reader. |
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http://cspar181.uah.edu/RbS/JOB/j22.html
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| | EPIC POETRY - LoveToKnow Article on EPIC POETRY |
| | It is now believed that there was a class of minstrels, the Rhapsodists or Homeridae, whose business it was to recite poetry at feasts and other solemn occasions. | | | These Sagas took the place of a group of archaic Icelandic epics, the series of which seems to have closed with the noble poem of Atlamdl, the principal surviving specimen of epic poetry as it was cultivated in the primitive literature of Iceland. | | | Teutonic epic poetry deals, as a rule, with legends founded on the history of Germany in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, and in particular with such heroes as Ermanaric, Attila and Theodoric. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/E/EP/EPIC_POETRY.htm
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| | hist_arab.html |
| | This Arabic was heavily influenced by Nabatean Arabic and was used for inter-tribal spoken communication on caravans of a mixed tribal nature and in major commercial centers, especially to communicate with non-Arabs or Arabs who were already living outside of the Arabian peninsula. | | | Syriac was used as a liturgical language by the Christians and Arabic was spoken by the Lakhmids. | | | Blau analyzed a sample of Arabic that had been fortuitously written with Greek script from the 8th century CE in which the i'raab were absent. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~andyf/hist_arab.html
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| | Is Quss Bin Sa'idah's 'Poetry' Meeting The Challenge Of The Qur'an? |
| | The Arabs who were at the pinnacle of their poetry and prose during the time of revelation of the Qur'an could not even produce the smallest surah of its like. | | | Poetry in Arabic falls into sixteen different al-Bihar as mention above and other than that they have the speech of soothsayers, rhyming prose, and normal speech. | | | It is from before Islam, but it is not poetry and your attack |
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http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Miracle/Quss.html
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| | 237-Biblical Poetry in Translation Syllabus |
| | Finally, this course will briefly survey the influence of the poetry of the Hebrew Bible on later religious literature. | | | This course will survey the poetry of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) in translation. | | | When compared to the rest of the Hebrew Bible and Western poetry, biblical poetry is markedly different and thus deserves to be studied on its own. |
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http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/hebrew/237syS2004.html
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| | Christian poetry books. Christian book publisher. Christian Poetry Contest. |
| | Poetry of Today Publishing is a Christian poetry publisher of Christian, inspirational and religious poetry. | | | They represent some of the finest Christian poetry in America and throughout the world. | | | We, as a part of the Body of Christ, believe that there is only one TRUE living and eternal GOD and is revealed to us as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16-17). |
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http://www.poetryoftoday.com
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| | This Song: Conspicuous Poetry in Hebrew Prose |
| | The Hebrew Bible contains many passages in which prose narrative surrounds conspicuous poetry. | | | The placement of poetry within prose became an established convention of Hebrew narrative, and the broad lines of this convention's development can be discerned in the history of First and Second Temple Jewish literature. | | | In Sumerian and Akkadian texts, the lines of text usually correspond to the lines of poetry, which makes it relatively easy to distinguish verse from prose, since in the latter no attention is given to where lines end (with the obvious exceptions of lists; see Wilcke, "Formale Gesichtspunkte," 231). |
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http://web.syr.edu/~jwwatts/ThisSong.htm
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| | ipedia.com: Poetry Article |
| | The greater part of the world's sacred scriptures are made up of poetry rather than prose. | | | A further complication is that prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of prose. | | | In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/poetry_1.html
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| | Hebrew Poetry |
| | It is commonly said that the poetry of the ancient Hebrews is wholly religious. | | | It is important, before coming to any definite conclusion, to take into consideration the fact that the poetry of the Old Testament belongs to periods separated by many centuries, from the Song of Deborah (Judges 5), the earliest Hebrew poem, down to the last hymns in the Psalter. | | | Notwithstanding the undoubted fact that poetry is largely represented in the Bible, it is noteworthy that this species of Bible literature was almost wholly ignored until the 18th century. |
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http://www.bible-researcher.com/hebrew-poetry.html
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