Editing Robert Lowth (section)

==Old Testament scholarship==
Lowth seems to have been the first modern Bible scholar to notice or draw attention to the poetic structure of the [[Psalms]] and much of the prophetic literature of the [[Old Testament]]. In Lecture 19 he sets out the classic statement of [[Parallelism (rhetoric)|parallelism]], which remains the most fundamental category for understanding Hebrew poetry. He identifies three forms of parallelism, the synonymous, antithetic and synthetic (i.e., balance only in the manner of expression without either [[synonym]]y or [[antithesis]]). This idea has been influential in Old Testament Studies to the present day.