Acknowledgments Introduction Orality Outside Literary History Summary of Chapters Chapter 1. From Proverbs and Poetry to Prose: The Bible''s Own "Great Divide" The Developmental Framework Is Biblical Poetry Biblical? Biblical Speech Genres on their Own Terms Modernity and the Paradox of "Ancient Wisdom" Chapter 2. The Idea of Mashal : Scholarship''s Quest for the Essence of Poetry The Problem of Locating Poetry''s Essence Theorizing Biblical Poetry with Mashal Mashal and Mimesis: the Biblical Poetics of Medieval Jewish Spain Moses ibn Ezra''s Guide to Imitating Biblical Poetics Moses ibn Tibbon''s three categories of poetic discourse Shem Tov ibn Falaquera: mashal as mimesis Locating the Sublime: Biblical Literature and the Rise of Romanticism Lowth and mashal as the building block of Hebrew poetry Why are Psalms more Poetic than Proverbs? Herder and the term mashal as a native description of biblical poetry The legacy of Michaelis: conventional ideas in the study of biblical poetry Biblical Poetry in a Structuralist Framework Mashal as Parallelism The Idea of Biblical Mashal Chapter 3. Wisdom, Orality, and Recovering Native Poetics The Problem of Mashal as a Form in Wisdom Literature What is "wisdom literature," and does mashalbelong to this category? Assumptions Made in the Study of Wisdom Literature Translating mashal as ''proverb'' Mashal as Oral Poetry? Mashal as an Orally Performed Composition Searching for the "Oral" in the Written Text Folklore Studies: Approaching Social Context through Written Form The Bible as Oral Literature Mashal as Oral Register: The Mashal ''s Implied Social Context Chapter 4. The Speech Performance Frame: The Case of Balaam''s Speeches Balaam in Pentateuchal Narrative Balaam''s Speech Performances: Instruction or Prophecy? Balaam''s First Mashal (Num 23:7-10) Balaam''s Second Mashal (Num 23:18-24) Balaam''s Third Mashal (Num 24:3-9) Balaam''s Fourth Mashal (Num 24:15-19) The Concluding Mashal Speeches in Num 24 Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24 The ''Taunt'' of the King of Babylon (Isa 14) Points of Intersection between the Mashal and the Qinah The Mashal in Isaiah 14 David''s Mashal Performance (1 Sam 24) Mashal Performance and its Reception: To "Become" a Mashal Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance Between Titles and Tales: Solomon in Prov 1:1 Speech Performance Frames: Towards a Categorization Frames of Instruction Framing and speech performance in the book of Proverbs Conclusion Bibliography Writings Index Subject Index ;lt;I> Moses ibn Ezra''s Guide to Imitating Biblical Poetics Moses ibn Tibbon''s three categories of poetic discourse Shem Tov ibn Falaquera: mashal as mimesis Locating the Sublime: Biblical Literature and the Rise of Romanticism Lowth and mashal as the building block of Hebrew poetry Why are Psalms more Poetic than Proverbs? Herder and the term mashal as a native description of biblical poetry The legacy of Michaelis: conventional ideas in the study of biblical poetry Biblical Poetry in a Structuralist Framework Mashal as Parallelism The Idea of Biblical Mashal Chapter 3. Wisdom, Orality, and Recovering Native Poetics The Problem of Mashal as a Form in Wisdom Literature What is "wisdom literature," and does mashalbelong to this category? Assumptions Made in the Study of Wisdom Literature Translating mashal as ''proverb'' Mashal as Oral Poetry? Mashal as an Orally Performed Composition Searching for the "Oral" in the Written Text Folklore Studies: Approaching Social Context through Written Form The Bible as Oral Literature Mashal as Oral Register: The Mashal ''s Implied Social Context Chapter 4.

The Speech Performance Frame: The Case of Balaam''s Speeches Balaam in Pentateuchal Narrative Balaam''s Speech Performances: Instruction or Prophecy? Balaam''s First Mashal (Num 23:7-10) Balaam''s Second Mashal (Num 23:18-24) Balaam''s Third Mashal (Num 24:3-9) Balaam''s Fourth Mashal (Num 24:15-19) The Concluding Mashal Speeches in Num 24 Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24 The ''Taunt'' of the King of Babylon (Isa 14) Points of Intersection between the Mashal and the Qinah The Mashal in Isaiah 14 David''s Mashal Performance (1 Sam 24) Mashal Performance and its Reception: To "Become" a Mashal Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance Between Titles and Tales: Solomon in Prov 1:1 Speech Performance Frames: Towards a Categorization Frames of Instruction Framing and speech performance in the book of Proverbs Conclusion Bibliography Writings Index Subject Index Native Poetics The Problem of Mashal as a Form in Wisdom Literature What is "wisdom literature," and does mashalbelong to this category? Assumptions Made in the Study of Wisdom Literature Translating mashal as ''proverb'' Mashal as Oral Poetry? Mashal as an Orally Performed Composition Searching for the "Oral" in the Written Text Folklore Studies: Approaching Social Context through Written Form The Bible as Oral Literature Mashal as Oral Register: The Mashal ''s Implied Social Context Chapter 4. The Speech Performance Frame: The Case of Balaam''s Speeches Balaam in Pentateuchal Narrative Balaam''s Speech Performances: Instruction or Prophecy? Balaam''s First Mashal (Num 23:7-10) Balaam''s Second Mashal (Num 23:18-24) Balaam''s Third Mashal (Num 24:3-9) Balaam''s Fourth Mashal (Num 24:15-19) The Concluding Mashal Speeches in Num 24 Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24 The ''Taunt'' of the King of Babylon (Isa 14) Points of Intersection between the Mashal and the Qinah The Mashal in Isaiah 14 David''s Mashal Performance (1 Sam 24) Mashal Performance and its Reception: To "Become" a Mashal Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance Between Titles and Tales: Solomon in Prov 1:1 Speech Performance Frames: Towards a Categorization Frames of Instruction Framing and speech performance in the book of Proverbs Conclusion Bibliography Writings Index Subject Index ative Balaam''s Speech Performances: Instruction or Prophecy? Balaam''s First Mashal (Num 23:7-10) Balaam''s Second Mashal (Num 23:18-24) Balaam''s Third Mashal (Num 24:3-9) Balaam''s Fourth Mashal (Num 24:15-19) The Concluding Mashal Speeches in Num 24 Chapter 5. Social Dimensions of Speech and its Framing in Isaiah 14 and 1 Samuel 24 The ''Taunt'' of the King of Babylon (Isa 14) Points of Intersection between the Mashal and the Qinah The Mashal in Isaiah 14 David''s Mashal Performance (1 Sam 24) Mashal Performance and its Reception: To "Become" a Mashal Chapter 6. Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance Between Titles and Tales: Solomon in Prov 1:1 Speech Performance Frames: Towards a Categorization Frames of Instruction Framing and speech performance in the book of Proverbs Conclusion Bibliography Writings Index Subject Index ;/I>Performance and its Reception: To "Become" a Mashal Chapter 6.

Titles and Tales: Framing Speech Performance Between Titles and Tales: Solomon in Prov 1:1 Speech Performance Frames: Towards a Categorization Frames of Instruction Framing and speech performance in the book of Proverbs Conclusion Bibliography Writings Index Subject Index.