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Prosodia and psalmodia in biblical Hebrew
Yes, by Espy's definition most of the biblical Hebrew text is prosody. Moreover, it is prosodia after the older Greek definition (as texts structured after such a fashion as Espy describes were also sung to instrumental accompaniment). Compare Psalms 119:54, ''Your statutes have been my songs (zemirot, songs accompanied by plucked string ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 23, 2009