Old Testament

Canaanite Religion: According to the Liturgical Texts of Ugarit

del Olmo Lete, Gregorio. Canaanite Religion: According to the Liturgical Texts of Ugarit. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014.

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Liturgy (sacred times, places, and rites), myth and cult of royalty, funerary cult of palace, prayers & oracles, syntax of sacred texts, hermeneutics of cultic literature, and everyday religion.

Strophenbau der Psalmen

Möller, H.. "Strophenbau der Psalmen." ZAW 50/1 (1932): 240-56.

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Study of the “Chiastischer Strophenbau mit Mittelstrophe.”  Same as Dahood’s later “double-duty modifier,” which Wilfred G. E. Watson terms “pivot pattern” (1976).  Cf. G. B. Gray, The Forms of Hebrew Poetry (1915/1972), terming it “incomplete parallelism without compensation.”

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