The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and

James Kugel reviews the history of the process whereby literary scholars differentiated parts of the Old Testament as prose or poetry and finds it mistaken from the start. First published in 1981, THE IDEA OF BIBLICAL POETRY immediately provoked controversy among scholars. Reinforced by habit and numbers, many continue to repeat the notions that Kugel attacks. And, as long as they do, his book will remain an indispensable counter.

James L. Kugel is the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Preface
Bibliographical Abbreviations
The Parallelistic Line	p. 1
Poetry and Prose	p. 59
Rabbinic Exegesis and the "Forgetting" of Parallelism	p. 96
Biblical Poetry and the Church	p. 135
The Meter of Biblical Songs	p. 171
"What Is the System of Hebrew Poetry?"	p. 204
A Metrical Afterword	p. 287
The Persistence of Parallelism	p. 305
On Syntax and Style, with Some Reflections on M. P. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure	p. 315
General Index	p. 325
Scriptural Index	p. 333
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