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The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Ps 20:8 contains third and first person contrast. Eccl 5:1 has second and third person contrast, along with other grammatical contrasts to be discussed below. There may be incidental morphologic parallelism when a masculine noun is paired with a feminine noun, as in the common pair הרים // גבעות, “mountains (masc.) // hills (fem.).” The real contrast, however, comes when the same noun (or same root) appears in two different genders. Cassuto pointed out that there are Ugaritic
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