Sweeter than honey, richer than gold : a guided study of biblical poetry - Ryken, Leland (Wooster, OH : Weaver Book Company, 2015)
The language poets use -- First things first: the primacy of the image -- How is A like B? the use of metaphor and simile -- Make believe: poetry and the nonliteral -- Artistic beauty: the parallelism of biblical poetry -- The composition of biblical poems -- What we need to know about biblical poems -- Putting all the pieces together: how to "explicate" a biblical poem -- What are the main types of psalms?
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism; Bible. -- Language, style; Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc