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For over one hundred years, International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological—to help the reader understand the meaning of Old and New Testament books. The new commentaries continue this tradition. New evidence is incorporated and...

We do not know which of the five poems was the first to be written,1 but ch. 1 is, perhaps, the most striking, and it may be for this reason that it is placed at the beginning of the group. Kraus (22) declares that there is simply no structure in ch. 1. Renkema (1988, 294–320; cf. 1998, 85) is of the opinion that there is a clear structure. Both these views are contrary, and most commentators, though not all in agreement, find a position between the extremes. We may understand
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