TY - BOOK AU - Hayes, Katherine Murphey. TI - The earth mourns : : prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic SN - 1589830342 (alk. paper) AV - BS1505.6.N34 H39 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Atlanta : PB - Society of Biblical Literature, KW - Bible. Prophets KW - Language, style KW - Nature in the Bible. KW - Metaphor in the Bible N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and indexes; |a Summary of scholarship on the nine passages as a group -- Amos 1:2 -- Hosea 4:1-3 -- Jeremiah 4:23-28 -- Jeremiah 12:1-4 -- Jeremiah 12:7-13 -- Jeremiah 23:9-12 -- Isaiah 24:1-20 -- Isaiah 33:7-9 -- Joel 1:5-20 -- The aesthetics of oral traditional poetry and the biblical text. The composition of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. The reception of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. Implications for the study of biblical poetic texts -- Appendix: Recurrent roots and words in the nine passages ER -