Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThis presentation discusses the views of three renowned authors \u2013 James Kugel, Robert Alter, and Jan Fokkelman \u2013 known for their literary-critical approach to the Bible, concerning biblical poetry. According to Kugel, looking at the Bible through the lens of division into poetry and prose (lyrical and epic literature) means looking at it wrongly. He maintains that even meticulous analyses of parallelism can be distorted if viewed through this lens. Therefore, Kugel asserts that there is no poetry in the Bible but rather a \u201ccontinuum\u201d of loosely connected parallel structures in what we see as prose sections and \u201cheightened rhetoric\u201d in what we often erroneously consider verses. According to Alter, biblical poetry is based on semantic parallelism. However, he points out that poetic expression deliberately avoids complete parallelism, just as language resists mere synonyms by introducing subtle differences between related terms. In contrast, Fokkelman believes that combining prose and poetry, and even transitioning between them, is possible because most Hebrew sentences contain two to eight words and are usually linked in sequences through parataxis (using \u201c\u2026 and\u2026 and\u2026 but\u2026 and then\u201d). All three opinions lead to the conclusion that biblical poetry, like prose, is to a large extent sui generis, and that any distinction between poetry and prose, if it exists at all, is not of the same nature as in Western literary culture and it is, therefore, inappropriate to refer to prosimetrum in the Bible.<\/p>\n
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Bible;\u00a0poetry;\u00a0versification;\u00a0James Kugel;\u00a0Robert Alter;\u00a0Jan Fokkelman<\/p>\n
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