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Lamentations 5: The Seventh Acrostic by Philippe Guillaume

Published 2009-07-01

“…Six complete alphabetic acrostics structure the first chapters of the book of Lamentations. …”

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A Perfectly Broken Acrostic in Nahum 1? by Thomas Renz

Published 2010-01-01

“…Responding to recent scholarship which discounts apparent traces of an alphabetic acrostic in Nahum 1 as purely coincidental, this essay argues that earlier scholarship was right to detect a tendency towards an alphabetic acrostic in Nahum 1. …”

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Looking edgeways: Pursuring acrostics in Ovid and Vergil by Robinson, M

Published 2019

“…I propose that we read some key passages of the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses in the active pursuit of acrostics and telestics, just as we have been accustomed to read them in the active pursuit of allusions and intertexts; and that we do so with the same willingness to make sense of what we find. …”

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VOCAB ACROSTIC STRATEGY IN TEACHING VOCABULARY MASTERY by Muhammad Helmi

Published 2018-02-01

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Arms and a mouse: Approaching acrostics in Ovid and Vergil by Robinson, M

Published 2019

“… In this article I begin by comparing and contrasting our reading practice regarding acrostics with our practice regarding allusions and intertexts, looking in particular at the problematic notion of authorial intention; I suggest an approach that assumes that ancient learned readers were on the look-out for acrostics, just as they were for allusions, and that they would test them for significance (as we imagine they did for allusions). …”

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Seeing the light, Part I:Aratus’s interpretation of Homer’s LEUKĒ acrostic by Leah Kronenberg

Published 2018-12-01

Subjects: “…Acrostics…”

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Numbers and Acrostics: Two Notes on Jason’s Prayer at Pagasae in Apollonius’ Argonautica by Brian D. McPhee

Published 2017-12-01

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Evil and the Disruption of Order: A Structural Analysis of the Acrostics in the First Book of Psalms by Ronald Benun

Published 2009-03-01

“… The four alphabetic acrostics in the first book of Psalms (9/10, 25, 34, and 37) are all missing verses beginning with certain letters of the alphabet and have other anomalies as well. …”

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A Brief Analysis of the Acrostic in Chinese Language in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language by Lydia Anggreani, Agustian Agustian

Published 2014-05-01

Subjects: “…acrostic, grammar, teaching, Chinese language…”

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Seeing the light, Part II: The reception of Aratus’s LEPTĒ acrostic in Greek and Latin literature by Leah Kronenberg

Published 2019-01-01

Subjects: “…Acrostics…”

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Latin acrostic poetry in Anglo-Saxon England: Reassessing the Contribution of John the Old Saxon by Gallagher, R

Published 2017

“…Other than charters, only a handful of Latin texts from Anglo-Saxon England can be conclusively dated to the ninth and early tenth centuries.1 Remarkably, of these, not one but two are sets of acrostic poetry in praise of West Saxon royalty: the first in honour of King Alfred and the second in honour of his grandson, Æthelstan. …”

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King Alfred and the Sibyl: sources of praise in the Latin acrostic verses of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 671 by Gallagher, R

Published 2019

“…In particular, a hitherto unrecognized textual model is identified, namely the ‘Sibylline acrostic’. Consideration of their potential sources also provides a greater appreciation of the social and cultural values of these Latin verses and of what, in turn, they tells us about the Alfredian milieu in which they were produced, presented and consumed.…”

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