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A helpful guide to analyzing Hebrew poetics. The primary purpose of this volume is not to serve as a source of information about facts and authors but rather to initiate the reader into the stylistic analysis of poetry. Everything that this manual contains by way of definition, description, or classification is given as a means to doing analysis. For this reason many of the...

with condescending irony (Prov 23:29–35); friends: “Accept a greeting from everyone, but advice from only one in a thousand” (Sir 6:5–17); the enemy: “Do not have him at your side, or he will trip you up and supplant you” (Sir 12:8–18); the rich and the poor: “If a rich man staggers, he is held up by his friends; a poor man falls, and his friends disown him as well.… A rich man speaks, and all are silent; then they praise his speech to the skies. A poor man speaks, and they say, ‘Who is this?’ ” (Sir
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