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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...

be involved in biblical parallelism are: A.) nominal-verbal, B.) positive-negative, C.) subject-object, D.) contrast in grammatical mood. (The verses cited may contain ellipsis and/or the addition of terms, and also rearrangements of their components, but this does not affect their syntax.) There are two basic sentence types in Hebrew: those without a finite verb (nominal) and those with a finite verb (verbal). The two are paired in the following verses. Mic 6:2b כי ריב לה׳ עם עמו
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