By S. E. Gillingham

ISBN-10: 0192132423

ISBN-13: 9780192132420

ISBN-10: 0192132431

ISBN-13: 9780192132437

Poetry was once a key art-form for the traditional Jews, the main unique means during which they attempted to depict the connection among God and his humans. The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible introduces the reader to the complete variety of the poetry of the previous testomony, either open air the Psalter and inside of it. After contemplating the basic parts of Hebrew verse, it seems to be on the such a lot conventional poems--the Psalms, the Songs of Solomon, and the poetry of task and Proverbs--as good as at much less customary examples of poems which in contrast are embedded in narrative, akin to battle poetry, harvest hymns, elegies, prayers of protest, and thanksgiving songs. The booklet is addressed to either experts and non-specialists; no wisdom of Hebrew is presumed, and a bibliography following every one bankruptcy deals feedback for additional study.

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