"This book would be quite useful as a reference for rhetorical study of the Psalms, as well as of other texts that employ DD."—The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol.1 No. 3, 2005
Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51 2004/05
"The study of Hebrew poetry has always included analysis of techniques such as parallelism, repetition, ellipsis, irony, hyperbole, hendiadys, etc. However, little if any attention was ever paid to direct address in poetry. With this study Jacobson steps into that lacuna. This very critical approach will advance both the study of Hebrew poetry generally and psalm study in particular." - The Bible Today, Nov/Dec 2005
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