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| | Poetry, Hebrew (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
 | | Isaac Taylor of Ongar (The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, 1861, 56 ff.) and Keil of Dorpat (Introduction to the Old Testament, 1881, I, 437) denied on a priori grounds the presence of epic and dramatic poetry in the Bible. |
 | | Hebrew poetry is destitute of meter in the strict sense, and also of rhyme, though this last occurs in some isolated cases (see below, III, 1, (4), c and e). |
 | | The view of the present writer may be stated as follows: That the poetry of the Hebrew is not in the strict sense metrical, though the writers under the influence of strong emotion express themselves rhythmically, producing often the phenomena which came later to be codified under metrical rules. |
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