Poetic Literature

Connections List
 * Bible Literature Types
 * Figurative language

Scope
 * Poems, ryhmes, songs, and other artistic writing of that nature
 * NOT story writing

Topics
 * In the bible
 * Else

In the bible
 * Psalms is pretty much the only book properly
 * Poetic forms such as chiasms appear in non-songs (e.g. flood story)
 * Evidence for artistic license:
 * Is 40:22 enthroned over the circle of the earth - though this even does not neccessarily imply a flat disc earth.
 * Ps 74:14 God crushed the leviathan - poetically referencing Egyptian creation myths. Not saying that there really was a leviathan, just that God created the world.
 * Things like Gods voice shakes the desert, mountains melt, etc.
 * Also use of metaphor, simile, hyperbole