Prof. Tania Notarius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) and a B2 Rated Researcher at the National Research Foundation of South Africa. She is also affiliated with Polis – the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities as Head of the Near Eastern Languages Program. She is extensively published on topics in the philology and linguistics of Ancient Northwest Semitic Languages.
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The poems in the Torah are stylistically, theologically, and linguistically different from the prose narratives surrounding them. They include traces of earlier dialects of Hebrew, Ancient Near Eastern mythical motifs, and resemble an 8th century B.C.E. poetic fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud—all of which suggest that they are ancient remnants of earlier Israelite literature.
The poems in the Torah are stylistically, theologically, and linguistically different from the prose narratives surrounding them. They include traces of earlier dialects of Hebrew, Ancient Near Eastern mythical motifs, and resemble an 8th century B.C.E. poetic fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud—all of which suggest that they are ancient remnants of earlier Israelite literature.
