Psalms Explorer - is there an explanation of the Parallelism annotation anywhere?

GregW

I read a Psalm each day, and have really appreciated having the Psalms Explorer to hand to help as I read them.  Normally the annotation is fairly self-explanatory, but this morning I came across the following in Psalm 52: 

I get Hebrew parallelism, and realise that in Hebrew the bit marked "a" comes before the bit marked "b", but I wondered if there is anything anywhere explaining the way they have tagged the parallelism in the Psalms?

Allen Browne

GregW said:

I get Hebrew parallelism ... , but I wondered if there is anything anywhere explaining the way they have tagged the parallelism in the Psalms?

In another thread, Rick Brannan (from Faithlife) replied:

There are some more details on the terminology there, as well as other sources to follow up on. Regarding parallelism stuff, Adele Berlin's article "Parallelism" in Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary has some more information (vol 5 pp. 155-161).

That's minimal, but it gives us some idea of how they are thinking. I love the overview that the Psalms Explorer gives and can see myself using that constantly, but the details of a Psalm less so.

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/661023#Comment_661023

Thank you Allen. This is the Anchor Bible Dictionary link referred to for anyone who is interested. 

Mark Barnes

GregW said:

I wondered if there is anything anywhere explaining the way they have tagged the parallelism in the Psalms?

Have you click About & Bibliography at the bottom of the left panel?

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/661180#Comment_661180

Mark Barnes said:

GregW said:

I wondered if there is anything anywhere explaining the way they have tagged the parallelism in the Psalms?

Have you click About & Bibliography at the bottom of the left panel?

Thank you Mark - that's exactly what I was looking for, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of looking there. That's a much more succinct summary than the ABD article, although I learned a bit more about parallelism from ABD thanI knew before!