Abstract
Abstract Chapter 2 provides a basic introduction to biblical verse-poetry, exploring the following aspects: (1) Biblical poetry is an aural, and not a visual, phenomenon. (2) Biblical poetic lines are not cued by text-internal end-marking; rather, they emerge in patterned or organized relation to each other. (3) Biblical poetic lines emerge in small groupings, often of two or three lines but sometimes larger. (4) Biblical poetry is free-rhythm poetry. (5) Lines of biblical poetry are of variable lengths, but they tend to fall within certain ranges. (6) Biblical poetic lines are structural units of poems built from all aspects of language. These discussions lay the groundwork for a non-parallelistic description of biblical verse-poetry and raise important issues that the book’s cognitive approach accounts for in subsequent chapters.
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