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Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry carry themselves differently from those of the Pentateuch, the histories, or the prophets. The divine voice does not peal from Sinai, there are no narratives carried along by prophetic interpretation, nor are oracles declaimed by a prophet. Here Scripture often speaks in the words of human response to God and God’s world. The hymns, laments, and...

For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. (Ps 33:9 NRSV) The difficulty comes, however, in attempting to understand the relationship between the lines. Due to the various relationships that can be expressed between the two lines, Lowth forwarded the notion that parallelism could be found in one of three basic forms: synonymous, antithetic and synthetic (or constructive). Although Lowth’s tripartite division of parallelism has been challenged by more recent studies of Hebrew
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