Summary: In this exercise, introductory students in biblical Hebrew poetry learn parallelism by constructing it.
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Summary: Annual swarming of the students: Big U academic year begins.
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Complaint in Haiku form.
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Religious claims can be divided into literal speech (which must submit to testing and measurement) and figurative speech (which may undergo the rather different critical norms of art).
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John Hobbins wrote up a translation and some commentary on a Hebrew poem by Shimshon Meltzer. When I tried to comment, TypePad declined to accept my data. Presumably, I had too darned many tags in my comment, what with my endless italicizing of stressed syllables. So, I am posting my comment here and linking to [...]
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The cords of Grading are wrapped around my neck, The snares of Grading confront me. I have gone where there is no blogging Nor memory of blogging. Until the LORD brings me up alive from Grading, Restoring me to life from those who go down into the Office, You may as well stop by Four [...]
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Features shared between Ugaritic and Israelite religious expressions challenge a reflexive human tendency to deny overlap between our theological convictions and those of the “Other.”
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