Biblical Poetry

Further Resources

The following publications represent significant works on Hebrew poetry. A PDF of these titles is available below.

Alonso Schökel, Luis. A Manual of Hebrew Poetics. Roma: Editrice pontificio Istituto biblico, 1988.

Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 1985.

Berlin, Adele. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Fokkelman, J. P. Reading Biblical Poetry: An Introductory Guide. Translated by Ineke Smit. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

Kugel, James L. The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Lunn, Nicholas P. Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetics. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006.

O'Connor, Michael Patrick. Hebrew Verse Structure. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

Petersen, David L., and Kent Harold Richards. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1992.

Watson, Wilfred G. E. Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to Its Techniques. London, UK: T & T Clark, 2005.