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The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary on Genesis–Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

In modern writing, a variety of written markers—italics, bold type, punctuation, parentheses, and so forth—are used to indicate emphasis and clarify meaning. The authors of the Old Testament could not rely on such devices since their writings were originally composed for oral presentation. They instead used literary structure to highlight certain ideas and to convey meaning and emphasis...

position of prominence in stories, the place for the climax (the final unit serving as the denouement). Hebrew literary tradition also had standard positions of prominence for various structural schemes, and Hebrew authors exploited these positions to highlight their most important material. The position of prominence in linear and parallel schemes, for example, is generally the final unit. This is presumably due to the final unit’s strategic position as the culmination of the composition’s forward
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