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Originally Posted by Matt Q
Quite a few years back I picked up a copy of "The Art of Biblical Poetry" by Robert Alter in a charity shop. I didn't finish it, but it was interesting enough that I read a fair chunk of it. What most interested me at the time was his treatment of parallelism and how that worked in Biblical verse.
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Whether you read Alter or not (and it sounds like good advice), do read something about parallelism in Hebrew poetry when you get to “Psalms.” I’ve heard and read psalms all my life, but never suspected the poetic principle they’re based on.