Video questions
What is considered the order in biblical poetry?
They are in couplets and is more freestyle
Proverbs
Solomon, 715-686 B.C., wisdom in all aspects of life
Lyrical poetry
poetry in the Bible which is associated with singing
What percent of the bible is poetry?
33%
Imagrey
“Like a swallow in its flying.” , visual, decsriptive figurative language
Why are some pieces of poetry in the Bible so repetitive?
The repetitive language makes you slow down and really think about the meaning of it, for emphasis
Job
unknown author, approximately 2000 B.C, sovereignty in suffering
Dramatic poetry
a form of poetry in the Bible that is written in verse and meant to be read aloud or acted out
When we read poetry what do we have to do to understand it better?
We have to slow down and reconsider it so we can understand fully what God is trying to say
Couplet
“A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.”, 2 lines of consectutive poetry
What does it mean that biblical poetry is a “bottomless well?”
they are packed w/ a overabundance of meaningto it, never exhaust meaning/umlimited
Ecclesiastes
“the preacher” maybe Solomon, 1000s-600s B.C, vanity apart from God
Motif
a recurring object, idea, or image throughout a poem
What does the percentage of poetry in the Bible suggest about the whole story of the Bible?
It is very important and God can bring out many ideas of making people come to him w/ poetry
Personification
“When the morning stars sang together.”, giving human like charcteristics to non-human things
What does the first line of a poem make?
It makes the basic statement
Psalms
David wrote half, 1010-971 B.C, how faith applies to real life situations, prayer and praise
Anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple successive clauses
Why is our culture resistant to poetry?
We are impatient w/ communication and don’t feel like slowing down to understand/read poetry, poetry is not respected on the first read
Antithetic Parallelism
“The heart of the wise in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.” , opposite ideas being contrasted in 2 consectutive lines of poetry
Why tell the same story through both poetry and prose?
It allows the reader to have different emotions and understand it fully through 2 different ways.
BONUS : Who is the book of Proverbs written to?
The book of Proverbs is written to young people
Inclusio
repetition of a word phrase, or idea, at the beginning and end of a passage of scripture
What does “Poetry is a kind of verbal resistance to the impenetrability of human experience. The poet will at least try” mean?
The poet tries to explain something so great like the nature of God through words
Onomatopoeia
“Crackling of thorns.” , a word that looks like the sound it makes