The Psalmic Oral Formula Revisited: A Cognitive-Performative Approach.
In the wake of Milman Parry's and Alfred Lord's groundbreaking discovery of oral composition in Homeric epics, biblical scholars analyzed the formulaic language of the biblical Psalms with a view toward establishing a similar compositional function. This approach met with little success. Among the m...
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