Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 9 revisits Psalm 23 and the two problems it raised at the beginning of this book: What are the lines of biblical poetry, and why does it even matter? This chapter walks through the line structure of Psalm 23 and establishes that the psalm is a composition in verse. It then demonstrates how the mental organization of the lines affects how the message of the work is heard and experienced. The chapter summarizes what this book has contributed to replace parallelism and metrical approaches: a coherent and unified free-rhythm versification system of lines fitting to lines that is theoretically plausible and simple, though contextually complex. This cognitive approach accounts for the wide diversity of biblical lines and poems and illuminates not just the structures of biblical poetry, but also the artistry of potential effects. It has implications for further research in Ugaritic as well as comparative literature approaches to parallelism.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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