The Forms of Hebrew Poetry

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302 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY


Job, caesura in lines of, 168 n. Particles, commonly toneless, 139-
Jose ibn Jose, 8 142, 145 f., 1.50 f.
Josephus, 11, 1.5-17, 21-23, 27 Philo, 10, 15 n.
Judah hal-Levi, 9 Piers Ploughman, 128 f.
Poetry, extent of, in Old Testa-
Kaliri, 8 ment, 7, 202 f.
Kimbi, 9, 17, 21 n. 1 mediaeval Jewish, S, 23, 33, 45
Kinah, 89, 116 f., 119 f., 132 f., Anglo-Saxon, 128-131, 136, 151
160, 227, 229, 234 f. Arabic (classical), 8, 41, 43, 45
Koster's theory of strophe, 192- modern Palestinian (Arabic), 22
195 n. 1, 139, 145 n
Babylonian (Assyrian), 39 f., 141,
Lamentations, Book of, ch. iii. 185 n., 220
formal differences between chh. Syriac, 8
ii. and iv., 100, 105, 109 f. Prophetical writings, poetical form
2 :2 rhythm in chh. i.-iv., 118 n. of, 7, 14, 1S (see also Index I.
rarity of 4 : 2 rhythm in, 171 under Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.)
Lowth, 4 if., 17, 32, 48-52, 8S-91, Proverbs, types of parallelism in, 68
202 f. Psalms of Solomon, 26


Magnificat, the, 26 Rabbinic interpretation, 19-21
Makkeph, 13S-140 Refrains, 189, 196
Menahem ibn Saruk, 9 Rejez, 45
Mesha, inscription of, 205 if. Repetition of terms in parallel lines,
Metheg, 142 65 f., 153 f., 254 n. 2, 295 f.
Metre, 4, 8-17, 21, 26 n. 3, 47, 111 (cp. 26 n. 3)
(see also Rhythm) Revised Version, 7, 79 f., 95 n.,
Metrical unit. See Unit 110 n., 166, 174, 189 n., 191,
250 nn. 3 and 4, 273 n., 275 n.,
Nahum, interpolations in, 262 276 n., 277 n., 279 f.
Nehi, 89 Rhyme, in Hebrew, 4, 8, 45, 63,
New Testament, Hebrew poems in, 236 f.
26, 26 n. 3 in Arabic, 41, 43, 45, 63
"Non-stop " lines. See Run-on " Rhymed prose (saj'), 44 f., 219 n.
lines Rhythm, earliest, 239
differences of, within the same
poem, 134 f., 15S, 160, 182 n. 2,
Odes of Solomon, 31-33 223 f., 228 f., 238
Origen, 11-13, 15, 17, 1S n. 2, 136 Rhythms--
2 : 2, 120, 159 if., 165, 169, 184 f.
Parallelism, chh. i.-iii. (cp. 118 n.)
in Babylonian, 38-40, 186 n. 2 :3, 176-183
in English, 38 2 : 4, 182 f.


in Finnish, 3S n. 3:2, 112, 120, 161, 169 f., 171,
in Arabic " rhymed prose," 40- 175 f., 179, 185, 225 if. (see
43, 46, 63 f. also Kinah)
in Jewish Greek, 32 f. 3 : 3, 30 n., 112, 159 f., 168 f., 182
absence of, in Arabic poetry, 41, n. 2,185, 225 if., 249 n. (cp. 92 f.)
44 3 : 4, 176, 181 f.

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