Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>]

See:

Lowth, Robert "Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews"  1787
(reprinted 1971, New York:  Garland Publishing, Inc.) Lowth was educated
as a classicist, and explains Hebrew poetry by constant reference to
Greek and Latin poetry, thoroughly comparing and contrasting the
Classical and Sacred literary forms.  He advanced the thesis, never
serious doubted since then, that almost all Hebrew poetry is formed in
parallelisms, couplets of parallel structure. Lowth was an Anglican
Bishop.

Gray, George Buchanan "The Forms of Hebrew Poetry" 1915 (reprinted 1972,
Ktav Publishing House) Gray refined Lowth's classifications, and
developed ingenious readings of texts which had been previously been seen
as corrupt and readable only with major emendations; Gray deduced
principles of Semitic poetry which allowed these texts to be sensibly
read without emendation. Gray was a Non-Conformist clergyman.

See also bibliographic info at:

http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/5680/hebrew.html

- A.C. Smith

"... if Bach is the sound of God thinking, then perhaps Gershwin is, at
least, the sound of St. Anthony of Padua whistling as he works ..."
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