Israel's Poetry of Resistance by Page Hugh R. Jr

Author:Page, Hugh R., Jr. [Hugh R. Page Jr.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4514-2628-1
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

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One wonders whether this perhaps a parenthetical remark indicating the response of someone departing after having been insulted.↵

This rubric introducing the song appears in Deuteronomy 31:30.↵

Given the references to divine names in the following lines, one wonders whether Hebrew śādāy might originally have read šādāy, “the Mountain One.”↵

For a description of this word game, which involves the trading of insults about close relatives, see Clarence Major, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (New York: Penguin, 1994), 138, 149. A very basic definition of the concept, according to Major, includes “aimless talking; flirting; forceful talk; meaningless talk; to bluff; bullying; threatening to fight” (513; see 288 on this as synonymous with “loud talking”).↵

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