Introduction - Biblical Poetry Beyond Parallelism Chapter One - "Verse, Properly So Called": The Line in Biblical Poetry Terminology Manuscript Evidence for the Line The "Verse Line" in Oral Poetry The Line from the Other's Perspective Internal Evidence for the Line Summary Chapter Two - The Free Rhythms of Biblical Hebrew Poetry Through Whitman's Eyes Biblical Hebrew Poetry is Not Metrical The Shape of Poetic Rhythm Orality, Song, and Music The Free Rhythms of Biblical Poetry Summary Chapter Three - The Idea of Lyric Poetry in the Bible The Hebrew Lyric Summary Lyric in extenso: Probing (Some) Possibilities in the Song Beyond Lyric: Toward a Richer Understanding of (Other) Biblical Poems Chapter Four - An Informing Orality: Biblical Poetic Style Some Preliminary Points of Orientation Prob(lematiz)ing the Question of Hebrew Narrative Poetry Nonnarrative Oral Poetry, Or: Orality Poeticized Otherwise Signs of (Nonnarrative) Orality in Biblical Poetry Emergent Textuality Conclusions Chapter Five - The Way of Poetry in Psalm 133 I II III IV Closing Notes Bibliography Index
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