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Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex
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Biblical poetry is characterized by short parallel lines, without a fixed meter or rhyming pattern, and include love poems, laments over the dead, victory poems, and laments, among others.
During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
Johann Buxtorf, from Synagoga Judaica, de Judaeorum fide, ritibus, ceremoniis . . . (Basil: Decker, 1661), frontispiece. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München.