This volume explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Composed of essays by fifteen leading scholars of biblical poetry, it offers creative and insightful close readings of poems from across the canon of the Hebrew B
Reading Biblical Poetry
β Scribed by J. P. Fokkelman
- Publisher
- Westminster John Knox Press
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 254
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Reading Biblical Poetry
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