Future advances in ancient Hebrew poetry studies will be based on the work of many who labored up till now in the field. The larger fields of metrics, prosody, and linguistic analysis of poetry also have much to offer.
Diachronic analysis of the Hebrew language will eventually force students of ancient Hebrew poetry to break with the received text, however tentatively, in the hopes of reconstructing ancient Hebrew verse as it might have been heard, read, and written in the period of its composition.
This post contains an annotated bibliography of ancient Hebrew poetry studies, the larger fields of metrics, prosody, and linguistic analysis of poetry, and an introductory bibliography to the synchronic and diachronic study of ancient Hebrew. Go here.
could you please tell me how to translate names into hebrew i wanted my mothers name translated its savita. thanks
Posted by: | April 15, 2008 at 04:57 AM
could you please translate for me into hebrew the following: love peace respect health happieness.
thanks
Posted by: laura king | February 22, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Hi my boyfriend is interested in having a tattoo in ancient hebrew, he's not shre what yet but some kind of phrase, i've looked in the library for help with phrases and translations, can your help. Is there a book you could recommednd?
Thanks
Vicky
Posted by: vicky | October 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM
I am blown away and deeply grateful to find such resources on the web. I wrote to Maria (the head of the SBL Blogs) thanking her, and I found yours through theirs, and now deeply thank you. God only knows if I will ever return to finish seminary. But to have access to the discussions that so profoundly stretch my heart strings is humbling, and joyful all at once. Thank you again.
Posted by: Iselchyresse | March 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Thank you for taking the time to comment. You encourage me to update this online resource and others.
Posted by: JohnFH | March 17, 2010 at 08:12 AM
Thank you so much for your scholarship and your commitment to your subject matter. I am a poet and student of English prosidy and am grateful for the tools that you provide here for the understanding of ancient Hebrew prosidy. I have read the Psalms my whole life with little knowledge of their forms (other than the basics of paralellism which I picked up a few years back), but as my studies of English verse progress I have a similar desire to understand Hebrew prosidy as well. Thanks so much.
Posted by: Nikalena | November 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM