"Poetry" in Habakkuk 1

James Kugel's study of the nature of Hebrew poetry has raised the question of the role of within Hebrew poetry. The nature of prophetic writings has historically been particularly problematic. The present study concentrates on the various types of which may be observed within the prophetic text Habakkuk 1:1-2:4. It appears that while semantic alone may be too simplistic a standard for the determination of the poetic nature of this passage, the interplay of semantic and grammatical in both near and more distant contexts does characterize the text as poetic. This study would suggest that, rather than abandoning parallelism as a category for understanding texts, the variety of in specific texts needs further attention

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