a hymn of praise which was inserted into the JE or JEP complex at a later date.g In its metrical style and strophic structure, the poem fits precisely into the pattern of old Canaanite and early Hebrew poetry. The repetitive parallelism, mixed meter, and the complex makeup of the strophes suggest an early date of composition. At the same time, the unity of the pattern and the symmetry of the strophic structureh indicate that the poem is substantially a single, unified composition.i Insertions or