The Hebrew Prophets for English Readers, Vol. 3 of 4

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Excerpt from The Hebrew Prophets for English Readers, Vol. 3 of 4: In the Language of Revised Version of the English Bible, Printed in Their Poetical Form, With Headings and Brief Annotation We desire to express our gratification at the appreciation, shewn in the reception of the second volume, of this little work. We should like, however, to take this opportunity of clearing up a misconception which has arisen with some of our readers. It has been asked whether it is not the case that the division into lines, and their position on the page, are not purely arbitrary, and, if so, it is suggested that these have no value in expressing the meaning of the prophet. In a sense the first implication is true, but practically it really misses the point. The facts, to put the matter plainly, are these. The division into lines at all is, so far as Hebrew is concerned, a mere modern convention, to render it analogous to other poetry. In all poetry lining is a convenient practical device for marking the natural pauses. The Hebrew grammarians, the Massoretes, who inserted the Hebrew vowels into the older consonantal text in the eighth century A.D., or thereabouts, adopted another device. They signified the degree of pause by marking the last accented syllable of the clause with various kinds of what are called disjunctive accents. The whole of Bible Hebrew, prose and poetry alike, is marked off in this way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.