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 Theology Today - Vol 39, No. 2 - July 1982 - BOOK REVIEW - The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History
In the Middle Ages and later, however, Jewish exegesis as exemplified by Azariah dei Rossi and Christian exegesis began to move toward a more reasonable view of parallelism than what bad preceded or what would follow in Lowth and his immediate predecessors and followers.
The systematic investigation of biblical poetry has seen a revival in recent years, as evidenced by the publication of several important works, all of which move beyond analysis of individual poetic texts to try to define or describe the phenomenon of Hebrew poetry, or some fundamental aspect of it.
If we can speak of biblical "poetry," it must be understood not as a style distinguished by meter and parallelism but as "a complex of heightening effects used in combinations and intensities that vary widely from composition to composition even within a single 'genre'" (p.
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There was Azariah dei Rossi, the father of historical criticism; Messer Leon, the subtle philosopher; Elijah Levita, the grammarian; Leon of Modena, the keen-witted rationalist; Joseph Delmedigo, of encyclopedic mind; the Frances brothers, both poets, who combated mysticism; and many others too numerous to mention.
The "icy north country" was Lithuania, in which the literary movement had just effected a triumphal entry, bringing with it the light of science, and the young poet was Judah Leon Gordon, destined to become the greatest Jewish poet of the nineteenth century.
The process of historical evolution is in itself an adequate reason for its existence.
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Poet, grammarian and talmudist, Archivolti could number among his contemporaries in Bologna such Renaissance men as Azariah dei Rossi, Jacob Mantino, and Obadiah Sforno.
In 1568, exceeded in size among Italian Jewish communities by only Rome and newly by Venice, Bologna was completely emptied of Jews by papal edict.
The present copy was made 500 years later, evidently in Bologna.
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