where the nature of the genre means that many of the usual indicators of boundary, as are found for example in narrative, are lacking. A portion of Hebrew narrative is typically readily divisible into its natural units, but we find that this is generally not so with poetry. The absence of linear progression and the presence of repetition makes text segmentation often less precise than in the case of narrative and expository material. Nevertheless, there did exist a range of means and devices available
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