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OT102 Introducing the Old Testament: Its Poetry and Prophecy is unavailable, but you can change that!

This course provides a practical foundation for reading the poetry and prophecy of the Old Testament. Dr. Baker begins by discussing poetic writing in general, then the elements specific to both Hebrew and English poetry. Applying these elements to the text, he examines the content, structure, and themes of the Psalms, Proverbs, Lamentations, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. Dr. Baker...

Poetry and prose—[another reason] for poetry, besides reaching the heart, would be ease of memorization. This is less important for us, because we have our iPhones or iPads or whatever, [so] we don’t need to memorize as much. In Israel it was a pre-electronic era, of course, but it was more oral. It was not a textual society. They didn’t write as much. They memorized things. Poetry is much [easier] to memorize, as you’ve probably noticed with a child. Our son was—and I imagine [that for] most children,