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Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin’s study features an additional chapter, “The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut,” by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition “innovative and instructive to...

The study of biblical parallelism reached its apogee in the mid-1980s, and waned after that as there was little new to say of a theoretic nature and as the linguistic study of poetry gave way to other approaches to poetry. However, there continued to be what I would call derivative studies, including refinements to the older categories of parallelism (e.g. janus parallelism, metathetic parallelism, and the like) and analyses of parallelism in specific biblical and