Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The middle Five

Alright, I feel comfortable with the first seventeen books. Let's move on to the middle five. They are:

Job - about Job's trial's
Psalms - Praise through Prayer (mostly written by David)
Proverbs - practical wisdom
Ecclesiastes -comes from the Latin form of the Greek word meaning preacher
Song of Solomon - love poem

According to the book I'm using they are experiential. At first I thought it said they were experimental and I couldn't understand that. LOL. But today I realized it said experiential. They are books of experience. They are personal. They are poetical. The first 17 were prose.

What is the difference between prose and poetry you ask? Dictionary.com defines prose as the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. Poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. Even the definition seems eloquent.

I'm having trouble figuring out a way to trigger my memory on these 5. So maybe just plain old memorization is best.

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