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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...

Hebrew: pronouns take the place of nouns, prepositional phrases and adverbs often serve the same syntactic function and are not always distinguishable, and a relative clause may serve as a subject or object—the same syntactic slot also filled by nouns and pronouns. The evidence seems to indicate that any word classes that serve the same syntactic function can be paired in morphologic parallelism. It is perhaps more usual to find that word pairs are from
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