Abstract
Summary Our review starts with a telescoped ‘short history’ concerning the length and structure of the line in ancient Hebrew poetry (§1) and concerning strophic analysis (§ 2). In § 3 we give a detailed account of Van der Lugt's work. It is important to stress, that the first part of the book contains a historical survey of previous research on the above mentioned subjects. The book closes with an English summary. The author analyzed all the Psalms and presents the full analysis of 57 Psalms. His analytical method is the following: he shows how the lines (bicola, tricola and monocola) form small units, strophes, by external parallelism and how these strophes fall into bigger units, stanza's, by the same kind of parallelism and other devices. Most of the Psalms are very regular in their overall structure, i.e. the stanza's are of equal length or are symmetrically arranged. This, on the assumption that we have to count each line as one unit, not regarding the length of the lines! We sketch the analytical m...
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