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In spite of debatable issues, such as meter, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and appreciation of Hebrew verse. Topics include oral poetry, meter, parallelism and forms of the strophe and stanza. Sound patterns and imagery are also...

spelled out above in detail) analysis of this kind is essential, but it is only a beginning and unless continued, leads nowhere.49 For instance, it is not immediately apparent that the paired nouns in each of the following two lines are matched in gender: כסה שמים הודו His GLORY (m.) covered the HEAVENS (m.), ותהלתו מלאה הארץ and the EARTH (f.) was full of his PRAISE (f.) (Hab 3:3) Once the pattern has been noticed by analysis, the poetic device ‘gender-matched synonymous parallelism’ can be recognised.
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