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Is There a Harmonizing With the Text?
It's designed to be this piece of literature, this whole text, that we engage in over and over and over. And as we read that, we're transformed by it, but we also see more in the text. So we get to imagine that story and be a part of that story, which is interesting. The styles and conventions every culture both produces and develops certain literary styles and conventions for how they write poetry and narrative and so on. For biblical authors, neer are designed according to the same principles as poetry, in terms of symmetry and parallelism and matching parts.