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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...

‘The difference between verse and prose or speech is not that verse has rhythm and prose and speech have not, but that in verse a rhythmical unit, the line, is superimposed upon the grammatical unit of all discourse, the sentence.’88 This statement applies to Hebrew poetry, of course, but it cannot be used as a test because the oral/aural element is lacking: there are no native speakers who can supply the relevant information. We are, therefore, forced to turn to external
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