Idea of Biblical Poetry
Subtitle: Parallelism and Its History
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: September 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780300031010
Subjects: Christianity; Judaism; Poetry & poets; Poetry; Unassigned Title; Bible; Hebrew language; Hebrew poetry, Biblical; History and criticism; Parallelism
First sentence: The songs and psalms of the Bible were not written in quantitative meters, as were the songs of the ancient Greeks, nor do they have regular rhyme or alliterative patterns, as do the songs of many other peoples.