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  2. Biblical poetry - Wikipedia

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    Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. This "parallelism" occurs in the portions of the Hebrew Bible that are at the same time marked frequently by the so-called dialectus poetica; it consists in a remarkable correspondence in the ideas expressed in two successive units (hemistiches, verses, strophes, or larger units); for example ...

  3. Song of Songs - Wikipedia

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    The Song was accepted into the Jewish canon of scripture in the 2nd century CE, after a period of controversy in the 1st century. This period of controversy was a result of many rabbis seeing this text as merely "secular love poetry, a collection of love songs gathered around a single theme", [35] and thus not worthy of canonization. In fact ...

  4. Song of Songs 1 - Wikipedia

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    "Song" (Hebrew: שיר 15] also meaning "poem") in noun form appears only here in this book, out of 166 times in the Hebrew Bible (mostly in the Book of Psalms). [ 16 ] "Which is Solomon's" ("that concerns Solomon"; Hebrew: אשר לשלמה , ’ă-sher li š-lō-mōh [ 15 ] ): can have the interpretation that (1) Solomon is the author; (2 ...

  5. Inspire a Day of Gratitude With These Thanksgiving Bible Verses

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    Revelation 11:17: "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign." Jonah 2:9: "But I with the voice of thanksgiving will ...

  6. Psalms of Solomon - Wikipedia

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    The Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms, religious songs or poems, written in the first or second century BC.They are classed as Biblical apocrypha or as Old Testament pseudepigrapha; they appear in various copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta, but were not admitted into later scriptural Biblical canons or generally included in printed Bibles after the arrival of the printing ...

  7. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

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    In a forward to his poems, which many scholars believe was addressed to Southwell's cousin, William Shakespeare, the priest-poet wrote, "Poets by abusing their talent, and making the follies and feignings of love the customary subject of their base endeavors, have so discredited this faculty that a poet, a lover, and a liar, are by many ...

  8. Song of Songs 3 - Wikipedia

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    Song of Songs 3 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 3) is the third chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]

  9. Poetic Books - Wikipedia

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    The Poetic Books, also called the Sapiential Books, are a division of the Christian Bible grouping 5 or 7 books (depending on the canon) in the Old Testament. [1] The term "Sapiential Books" refers to the same set, although not all the Psalms are usually regarded as belonging to the Wisdom tradition.