Hayes, Katherine Murphey. <br/><br/>
The earth mourns :  prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic /  [manuscript] : 
by Katherine M. Hayes. 
 - Atlanta :  Society of Biblical Literature,  c2002. 
 - xiv, 286 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Academia Biblica ;  no. 8 .
 - Academia Biblica (Series) (Society of Biblical Literature) ;  no. 8. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Summary of scholarship on the nine passages as a group -- Amos 1:2 -- Hosea 4:1-3 -- Jeremiah 4:23-28 -- Jeremiah 12:1-4 -- Jeremiah 12:7-13 -- Jeremiah 23:9-12 -- Isaiah 24:1-20 -- Isaiah 33:7-9 -- Joel 1:5-20 -- The aesthetics of oral traditional poetry and the biblical text. The composition of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. The reception of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. Implications for the study of biblical poetic texts -- Appendix: Recurrent roots and words in the nine passages. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1589830342 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002010938 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Prophets--Language, style.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nature in the Bible.<br/>Metaphor in the Bible.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1505.6.N34  / H39 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>224/.066