Pararllelism in religious texts

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This reseach deals with the employment of parallelism in religious texts.

Parallelism is a universal phenomenon which exists in most poems , sermons , prose and biblical verses .

As such , parallelism may be defined as 66 the employment of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same , or similar in their construction , sound , and meaning or meter.

( web source 2) This study is devoted to investigate parallelism from its different dimensions.

It aims at : 1- Identifying the different types and levels of parallelism used in religious texts.

2- investigating the relationship between parallelism and religious language 3- showing up the most used types in the bible.

4- Analyzing some texts from the bible.

The study consists of two parts : theoretical and practical .

In theoretical part, the researcher presented theoretical background of the use of parallelism in religious tests.This theoretical includes historical background about the concept of parallelism , the relationship between parallelism and religious discourse , dynamics of biblical poetry , types of parallelism and dimensions of parallelism.In practical part , the researcher analyzed some texts from the bible to identify the types and levels or dimensions of parallelism