Figures of Speech in Psalms: Hebrew poetry has a distinctive type of language that uses illustrative expressions known as figures of speech to bring warmth, vividness and vitality to biblical poetry. Figures of Speech in Psalms Ryken explains that “poetry is heightened speech, far more compressed than prose. Whereas expository prose uses the sentence or paragraph as … [Read more...] about Figures of Speech in Psalms
Biblical Poetry
Types of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry
Types of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry: Poetic language in the psalms is set within the structure of biblical poetry. The most common and repeated structure is parallelism. In other words, biblical poetry consists of a distinctive type of sentence structure and it is called parallelism. Biblical poetry is predominately written in this verse form of parallelism. Types of … [Read more...] about Types of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry
What are the Different Types of Psalms
What are the different types of Psalms: To interpret and preach the psalms, you will need to know the categories into which each psalm is placed. There are 150 psalms and these various psalms are categorized into various literary types. It is most helpful to identify these categories if you want to interpret them correctly. The different types of psalms are: wisdom psalms, … [Read more...] about What are the Different Types of Psalms
The Exposition of Biblical Poetry
The Exposition of Biblical Poetry: I have been preaching weekly sermons for twenty-seven years or so. I have mainly preached sermons from the books of the New Testament. I have only preached through a couple of books from the Old Testament and several one off messages from different passage of the Old Testament. Because I majored in the Greek language while at seminary, I … [Read more...] about The Exposition of Biblical Poetry