Old Testament Scholarship
Lowth seems to have been the first modern Bible scholar to have noticed or drawn attention to the poetic structure of the Psalms and much of the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. In Lecture 19 he sets out the classic statement of parallelism which still today is the most fundamental category for understanding Hebrew poetry. He identifies three forms of parallelism, the synonymous, antithetic and synthetic (i.e. balance only in the manner of expression without either synonymy or antithesis). Much commentary on the Psalms since, therefore, derives either consciously or implicitly, directly or indirectly to some extent from these lectures.
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