forms. The application of this knowledge to biblical poetry is perhaps the most significant factor in the new studies.2 The corpus of ancient Yahwistic poetry has not yet been delineated in satisfactory fashion. The proper starting point is the Song of Deborah, a victory hymn, the occasion of which is known, and the approximate date quite certain, i.e., ca. 1100 B.C. Burney’s study of this poem3 is of basic importance; he described the phenomenon of climactic parallelism, a characteristic feature