Poetry

Why Biblical Poetry is So Helpful

Why Biblical Poetry is So Helpful

Most people who read the bible don’t notice how full of poetry it is. They know that the Psalms are poetic, as psalms were written to be sung, but unless they have a bible where the typesetters have gone to the trouble of indenting whole sections, they may have missed the poetry in chapter after chapter of the prophetic books, to say nothing of Job, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, and even parts of Genesis…