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A psalm is a sacred song of worship, such as those featured in the Book of Psalms in the Bible. These verses are sung and read aloud in Jewish and Christian worship. They are mostly attributed to King David (although this has been rejected by many scholars).
- Psalm 23: The Lord is my Shepherd - Poem Analysis
‘The Lord is My Shepherd‘ is the name commonly used to refer...
- Psalm 23: The Lord is my Shepherd - Poem Analysis
The best Psalm 23 study guide on the planet. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices.
The analysis of Hebrew poetry hinges on the reader’s ability to recognize both the structural and the semantic interplay between the two parts. On the structural level, we may notice lexical variation and pairing: “the earth//the world” and “all that is in it//all its inhabitants.”
Unlike many other instances of Hebrew poetry, Psalm 23 lacks some of the decisive features that we normally expect to find in poetic literature. As one scholar has noted, “there is a lack of symmetry, an absence of word pairing, of chiastic patterns, of envelope figure—all of
Josephus, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome all suggest that the Psalms are poetry, even as verse arranged in lines. This article explores the poetry of the book of Psalms and the psalms as poetry, focusing on what psalmic verse consists of.
A Literary-Structural Analysis of Psalm 22. 1. Introduction. Hebrew poetic discourse—specifically, the precatory texts found in the collection known as the Psalter (the “Book of Praises”)—features a layered type of structural organization consisting of several closely related levels.
‘The Lord is My Shepherd‘ is the name commonly used to refer to ‘Psalm 23‘ in the Book of Psalms and contains some of the most iconic descriptions of the Judeo-Christian God. It appears in both the Tanakh and the Old Testament and is regularly used in Jewish and Christian liturgies, often set to music.
