Thesiss

Israel's most sublime Song contains some of the most exquisite yet enigmatic poetry in the Hebrew Bible. One of the chief difficulties in interpreting the Song's lyrics is the unusual imagery used to depict the lovers' bodies. Why is the maiden's hair compared to a flock of goat…

The subject of this dissertation is was[dotbelow]f or "description" that is one of the salient characteristics of the qas[dotbelow]idah (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. We find something similar to was[dotbelow]f in the Western tradition under the name of ekphrasis. Original…