An Analysis of Types and Functions of Parallelism in Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible

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10.2991/assehr.k.210914.058How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Parallelism, Synthetic, Antithetic, Synonymous, Functions

Abstract

This paper aims at describing and analyzing the types and functions of parallelism used by Matthew Henry in his bible commentary. Parallelism is defined as the correspondence of one verse or line with another. Thus, parallelism in this sense is not limited to the parallel form of grammatical construction but covers also the parallel sense or idea of an expression. By referring to Lowth’s types of parallelism, this study classifies the types of parallelism into synthetic, antithetic, and synonymous. In writing his bible commentary, Matthew Henry frequently made use of rhetorical devices and parallelism is one of them. The data of this study were collected from the commentary of the Gospel of Matthew that has been translated into Indonesian. The researchers will identify all parallel forms in the commentary of the Gospel of Matthew and classify them based on their types and functions. Each type and function of parallelism will be analyzed in terms of its construction and/or its meaning.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - E. S. Kendenan
AU  - M.R. Nababan
AU  - Sri Marmanto
AU  - Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - An Analysis of Types and Functions of Parallelism in Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 306
EP  - 312
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210914.058
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210914.058
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