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This volume offers a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible. The failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has often resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787) marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of Hebrew...

We take a very broad understanding of parallelism. It occurs in the interaction of semantic and grammatic equivalence and opposition. The juxtaposition of an A and B provides the opportunity for an almost infinite number of correspondences. The equivalence or opposition within the correspondence may be furthered at grammatic and semantic levels. “A is so, and what’s more, B is so”41 is too limiting a description of the correspondence. A is related to B at a multiplicity of grammatic and semantic
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