Abstract
Divine retribution is both a teaching and a core-tenet in Christianity. A large portion of Biblical texts come to embody the righteous judgment of the Almighty Lord, His gracious as well as wrath character. This paper is an attempt to pinpoint the stylistic devices and features of retribution in Biblical texts. It aims to identify the stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices of retribution in Biblical texts and find out the function of each. Furthermore, it aims to explain the overall functions such texts of retribution perform and how the overall function of these texts and the functions of the utilized stylistic devices are coalesced to produce a stylistic interpretation to these texts. It is hypothesized that Biblical texts of retribution utilize specific stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices. Besides, it is hypothesized that the functions these devices perform fall in line with the overall functions the Biblical texts of retribution have. A model is developed to analyze the Biblical texts of retribution. In addition, statistical findings are used to support the results. The findings of the analysis validate the hypotheses mentioned above.
Highlights
Divine retribution is both a teaching and a core-tenet in Christianity
This paper is an attempt to pinpoint the stylistic devices and features of retribution in Biblical texts. It aims to identify the stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices of retribution in Biblical texts and find out the function of each. It aims to explain the overall functions such texts of retribution perform and how the overall function of these texts and the functions of the utilized stylistic devices are coalesced to produce a stylistic interpretation to these texts
It is hypothesized that Biblical texts of retribution utilize specific stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices
Summary
The term “heaven” appears first in Old Testament as “heofon” It is originally meant “the sky” but christianized later to bear the meaning of everlasting happiness, bliss of the righteous and the dwelling of God and good spirits The term “hell” appears first in old English as “hel” or “helle” It originally denotes “the shadowy land of the dead”, but christianized latter to bear the meaning of everlasting misery and torment for the wicked. 38) define hell as the place of Divine punishment and torment against the wicked in the Day of Judgment Hell, in this sense, is the translated term for the Hebrew words “Gehenna and Shoal” and the Greek words “Hades and Tartarus”. [For “Retribution in Qur’anic Text: A Stylistic Analysis” SeeAl-Ameedi&Al-A’ssam(2018)]
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