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This is a sister post to a question regarding biblical poetry with particular respect to parallelism. Has anybody read Jame's Kugel's The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History? Any thoughts on his critique of traditional views on parallelism (or the notion of biblical poetry overall) as it was handled from the ancient rabbinic tradition through the midrashic era, the church fathers through medieval Jewish views? His criticism of how parallelism in both biblical poetry and prose (ala Robert Lowth) have been oversimplified and even led to misinterpretation of the text seem really well researched and thorough. I just haven't seen anything yet in the way of a rebuttal to his views. Anybody have any thoughts?