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"Many are saying": The function of direct discourse in the Hebrew Psalter

서명/저자: Many are saying: The function of direct discourse in the Hebrew Psalter

주기사항: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: A, page: 1460.

초록/해제: 요약 : This dissertation examines the rhetorical function of direct discourse in the Hebrew Psalter. Chapter 1 introduces theoretical issues that play a role throughout the dissertation. The chapter reviews the theories of modern linguists who have studied the nature and function of quotations (Anna Wierzbicka, Florian Coulmas, Herbert Clark and Richard Gerrig, and Meir Sternberg); the speech-act theory of J. L. Austin, and the contributions of scholars who have studied the function of direct discourse in Hebrew narrative (Adele Berlin, Sternberg, David Gunn and Danna Nolan Fewell, Robert Alter, Phyllis Trible, and Herbert Chanan Brichto); and reviews issues of identifying and interpreting direct discourse in Biblical Hebrew (drawing on Michael O'Connor, Samuel Meier, George Savran, and Cynthia Miller).

초록/해제: 요약 : Chapter 2 investigates the enemy quotations. The enemies are quoted as attacking either God or the psalmists. The psalmists hold the enemies' words before God so that God will act against the enemies and also to speak illicit complaints to God. Chapter 3 investigates the self quotations. The psalmists quote past speeches that narrate some prior event in order to support the present argument of the psalm, present speeches in order to emphasize the words that are quoted, or future speeches in order to promise praise if God will deliver the psalmist. Chapter 4 investigates the God quotations. The voice of God is quoted because of its authority: either God's words are quoted back to God in order to motivate God to answer a request or are quoted to the community for the purpose of ethical instruction and exhortation. These quotations also serve as an answer to the accusation of the enemies that God neither hears nor speaks. Chapter 4 investigates the community quotations, which fall into two categories: those representing the liturgical voice of the community and those representing what the psalmist wishes the community to speak. The former function to second or affirm some belief that the psalmist wishes the community to adopt. The latter motivate God to answer the psalmist's prayer, by arguing that God should rescue the psalmist in order to receive praise from the community.