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MACRO ANALYSIS OF HEBREW POETIC AND PROPHETIC DISCOURSE

October 18, 2023 - Dallas International University

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Can Hebrew poetic and prophetic discourse be analyzed on the macro level?
Most work on Hebrew discourse has focused on lower levels of the discourse,
leaving room for more research on methods for analyzing entire Hebrew writings.
But poetic and prophetic writings pose special challenges, such as their
compositional histories and anthological nature. These factors make pragmatic
analysis especially challenging, if it is even possible. Join us as we explore
the problems and potential solutions to analyzing the macro-structure of Hebrew
poetry and prophecy.

Co-sponsored by Dallas International University, SIL International, and Fontes
Press, this one-day conference will feature a plenary speaker (Benjamin J.
Noonan), roundtable discussion, and up to 20 selected papers. Authors of
exceptional papers will be invited to contribute to an edited volume on the
topic. A light breakfast and full lunch will be provided for in-person
attendees.

Virtual attendance via Zoom is an option for both presenters and attendees.
Session recordings will be available to registrations for 365 days after the end
of the conference. Tickets are refundable through September 18th.

Conference Committee Members:
JoAnna Hoyt, Associate Professor DIU
Todd Scacewater, Assistant Professor DIU
Joshua Harper, Assistant Professor DIU
Heather Beal, DIU Academic Dean

Paul O’Rear, SIL Resources Coordinator

 

REGISTRATION OPENS SPRING 2023

Cost

 * In-person regular attendee: $60
 * In-person student attendee: $30
 * Virtual regular attendee: $30
 * Virtual student attendee: $20

 


SPONSORS



Dallas International University

SIL International

Fontes Press




PLENARY SPEAKER



Benjamin J. Noonan (PhD, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion) is
Associate Professor of Old Testament & Hebrew at Columbia International
University (Columbia, SC). At Columbia International University he enjoys
teaching courses on Hebrew grammar and exegesis, Old Testament introduction, and
Old Testament theology. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature,
Institute for Biblical Research, Tyndale Fellowship, Evangelical Theological
Society, and National Association of Professors of Hebrew; he is also a member
of the Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch Research Group.

Noonan’s research interests include the Pentateuch; Biblical Hebrew grammar,
lexicography, and discourse analysis; Northwest Semitics; language contact in
the ancient Near East; and Old Testament theology. He is the author of Advances
in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old
Testament (Zondervan Academic, 2020) and Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew
Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact (Eisenbrauns, 2019) and is the co-editor
of “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?” A Grammatical Tribute to Professor Stephen A.
Kaufman (Eisenbrauns, 2017). He is currently working on Hebrew Grammar Beyond
the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the Old Testament (under contract with
Zondervan Academic).


RESEARCH QUESTION

“How can we approach analyzing Hebrew poetic and prophetic texts from a macro
discourse perspective?”

In recent decades, those studying biblical Hebrew discourse have advanced our
understanding of the language’s discourse features, particularly at the lower
levels of the discourse. Special attention has been given to Hebrew discourse
markers, information structure, and the discourse function of the verbal system,
among other issues. Far less attention has been paid to macro issues in the
analysis of Hebrew discourse.

Though some studies have approached the macro structure of Hebrew texts, these
investigations have generally focused on narrative texts, perhaps because of the
various challenges that poetic and prophetic texts pose for macro-discourse
approaches. While narrative texts have a rather unified final form, many of the
poetic and prophetic texts have a more obvious compositional history that cannot
be ignored. Prophetic books are generally collections of narratives and oracles
from a certain prophet. Psalms and Proverbs are anthologies, and the collected
nature of the prophetic books suggests they may also be more or less
anthological. (And Job, Qohelet, and the Song of Songs have their own similar
complications.) Can the macrostructures of such writings be analyzed as a whole
from a linguistic discourse perspective? And how does their compositional or
anthological nature affect attempts to analyze their macrostructure from a
discourse linguistic perspective? And how would a discourse analysis of the
final form of entire poetic and prophetic texts differ from canonical-critical
and structural approaches?

The advances in research at the lower discourse levels also contribute to how
the broader macro structure is organized and perceived. How might advances in
Hebrew discourse grammar on the lower levels of discourse inform our discourse
approach to the macro structure of the entire Hebrew writings?

Moreover, how are we to integrate pragmatics into the analysis of these texts? A
prophetic oracle is delivered to an audience, recorded, and collected with other
oracles. The psalms were written, collected incrementally into larger
collections, and eventually finalized into the Psalter we have today. Since
pragmatics relies on various aspects of the context of communication, which of
these stages of communication should supply the necessary pragmatic information?
How much of this pragmatic information is recoverable with any level of
certainty? By contrast, if we focus solely on the final form of the text, can
pragmatics be integrated at all? And how would such an analysis differ from
canonical criticism or structural approaches?

We invite paper proposals that explore the analysis of Hebrew poetic and prophet
texts from a macro-perspective, particularly those addressing the specific
questions posed above.

Submissions are open until April 28, 2023.


SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

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JoAnna_Hoyt@diu.edu.
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INQUIRIES

For all inquiries, contact Dr. JoAnna Hoyt.

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