عنوان

Marking Hebrew Memory in Early Modern English Lyric

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TL51513

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Marking Hebrew Memory in Early Modern English Lyric

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Phair, Veronica Jenny

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Gibbons, Daniel

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Catholic University of America

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

Text of Note

174 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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The Catholic University of America

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2019

Text of Note

Early modern devotional poets understood a distinct relationship of remembrance between God and David in the Hebrew Psalms and incorporated it into their writings. My dissertation argues that the Hebrew Psalms articulate a relationship of remembrance between God and the psalmist, which consists of two separate actions. The psalmist first remembers God's most sacred name, Yahweh, which transforms and renews his understanding of God's character. Second, God uses a physical sign, an ̓ot, to show His remembrance and love for the psalmist and the Israelites. Perceiving that these remembrances were conveyed through signs, Philip and Mary Sidney, John Donne, and George Herbert used the language of "marking" to capture the way in which God and the psalmist of the Hebrew Psalms remembered one another. These early modern poets either explained the first part of this relationship in the Hebrew Psalms, as Donne does in his Sermon upon Psalm 6:1, or they modeled it in their poetry. Philip and Mary Sidney's psalm translations highlight the significance of Yahweh's spoken and written name Jehovah, while Herbert's poems "Jesu" and "Love-joy" break apart Jesus' name similar to the way in which Kabbalists treat the name Yahweh. These poets also depicted the second part of this relationship: how God remembered them through signs. They portrayed these signs in ways that resembled the memorial signs of Hebrew Psalms 137 and 139. The meditation upon the marks of God's name-either though writing it, explaining it, or breaking the name apart-was a path to remembering God and Jesus as newly merciful and loving for the Sidneys, Donne, and Herbert. Just as their poetry meditated upon the marks of God's name, it likewise showed the marking remembrance of God, who marked their speakers in various ways to display His love for them.

Subject Term

Biblical studies

Subject Term

British & Irish literature

Subject Term

Judaic studies

Phair, Veronica Jenny

Gibbons, Daniel

The Catholic University of America

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