The Psalms
the poetry of prayer.
it praises, laments, gives thanks, and makes confession. can contain musical notation
didactic
poetry teaches a lesson. . it is the poetry of wisdom
proverbs and ecclesiastes
examples of didactic poetry
The Song of Songs
the poetry about the nature of love also known as the song of solomon
Lamentations
the poetry of grief. it concerns the fall of jerusalem to babylonians and the resulting exile of the jewish people
The purpose of the King James Bible translators was to
create close equivalence for the hebrew diction and syntax
the three original languages of the bible are
Hebrew Aramaic and Greek
Three elements of diction and syntax used extensively in Hebrew prose and poetry are
epinome, anaphora, and parallel structure
There is no typographical difference in the KJV between prose and poetry. the difference is
the structure
epinome
the repetition of entire phrases
anaphora
the repetition of the same words at the start of successive syntactical units
psalms
sacred songs or lyric poems in the praise of God
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sacred poems in the book of Psalms
how are the psalms written?
in prayers in first person
psalms 23
portrays Jesus as a shepherd and people as His sheep
extended metaphor
Psalms 23
