古希伯来诗歌的特征

The Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry

圣经诗歌几乎完全出现在希伯来圣经中。语义上的平行体是希伯来诗节的普遍特征。希伯来诗歌中有一种趋于强化的叙述发展势态,这种"水平"运动经常通过一系列诗行,甚至一首完整的诗,向下投映到某种"垂直"运动中。这意味着希伯来诗歌被关注的是一种向着某个终极目标运动的动态过程。希伯来诗歌有两种最常见的结构,一是意象、概念、主题借助于一系列诗句实现的不断强化的运动;二是一种叙述运动,最常见诸于隐喻性行为的发展过程中。希伯来诗歌不仅是一种手段,被圣经作者们用来强化或戏剧化其宗教感知,而且是一种有力的塑形工具,借助于它,那些感知中蕴含的内在真理得以被人发现。

Biblical poetry occurs almost exclusively in the Hebrew Bible.Semantic parallelism is a prevalent feature of biblical verse.Ancient Hebrew poetry is characterized by an intensifying development,quite often this'horizontal'movement is then projected downward in a'vertical'movement through a sequence of lines or even through a whole poem.What this means is that the Hebrew poetry is concerned above all with dynamic process moving toward some culmination.The two most common structures are a movement of intensification of images,concepts,themes through a sequence of lines,and a narrative movement which most often pertains to the development of metaphorical acts. Hebrew poetry is not merely a means of heightening or dramatizing the religious perceptions of the biblical writers,it is the dynamic shaping instrument through which those perceptions discovered their immanent truth.