Constitutive structures (stereotypes?) in Psalms. An Analysis of individual Lamentation Psalms (1-75) Cover Image

Structuri constitutive (stereotipe?) în psalmi. Analiză a psalmilor de tânguire individuali (1-75)
Constitutive structures (stereotypes?) in Psalms. An Analysis of individual Lamentation Psalms (1-75)

Author(s): Georgiana DIACONIŢA
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Biblical studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: psalms; wail; constituent structure; stereotypical trait; recurrent item;

Summary/Abstract: As prayers born from deep sorrow, from a wandering off from the Path and a “fading of soul”, the wail psalms differentiate themselves from other psalm categories, on the one hand, through tone. Born from the thirst for God, the wail and the repentance represent not only a state of penitence, but also a secret process of re-cognition, assumption, return, re-finding, at the end of which lies the metanoia and the light from which joy, reconciliation, trust and contentment emerge. On the other hand, the wail psalms have a different structure as compared to other psalms. The present scientific paper aims to identify to what extent the constituent structure of the wail psalms has recurrent items. Furthermore, it aims to analyse the way in which the structure of one wail psalm is similar to others of the same kind, and whether this feature becomes (or not) a stereotypical trait for the psalms under analysis.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-180
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian