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Macleod’s narrative is an historical document in itself – a Reformed

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Max Rogland

Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History cover_type:Paperback now in a convenient andIs there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style. Arguing that the Bible presents a continuum of speech