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According to the Oxford Companion to the Bible, ‘an acrostic poem is a poem in which the initial letters of each successive line form a word, phrase or pat-tern’ (Oxford Companion to the Bible 1999:6). This definition of an acrostic poem seems to be broader than what is normally considered to be acrostic psalms or poems in Biblical Hebrew.
The biblical acrostic is a literary form, not a genre, since a number of different genres occur in acrostic form, and every genre which occurs in acrostic form also occurs in non-acrostic form. However, although praise and petition occur in biblical acrostics, most acrostics have a didactic flavor.
This volume explores the fresh riches of biblical poetry for communities of faith by bringing together a diverse roster of Jewish and Christian scholars to explore biblical Hebrew poetic texts within the context—and for the benefit—of communities of faith.
6 Μαρ 2022 · One of the most formally fixed types among biblical poems is the acrostic. Among the acrostics of the Hebrew Bible, the predominant form has the headword of each line or couplet follow sequentially in alphabetical order.
One of the many interesting rhetorical features of the Hebrew Bible is its use of alphabetical acrostics. These acrostics are not "hidden codes" -- they are literary compositions in which the writer has used the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the initial letters for a sequence of verses.
4 Ιαν 2022 · An acrostic poem is a poem in which the first letter (or sometimes the first syllable) of each line spells out a word, name, or sentence. A good example is Lewis Carroll’s untitled poem, usually called “Life Is but a Dream,” at the end of Through the Looking-Glass.
9 Νοε 2023 · These fourteen acrostic poems feature many creative wordplays, sometimes even breaking the form’s ‘rules’ in meaningful ways to mirror a poem’s particular message. Psalm 37, for example, showcases at least three distinct kinds of alliterative wordplay.
