Freedman’s close readings, attention to symmetries, and respect for the received text are exemplary. He favors the counting of syllables for the purpose of measuring the repeated proportions which characterize ancient Hebrew poetry. A number of his students follow his methodological lead: Andrew H. Bartelt, Chris A. Franke, David M. Howard, Jr., and Paul R. Raabe. For a list of their chief contributions, see “Meter: A History of Research.”
“Archaic Forms in Early Hebrew Poetry,” ZAW 72 (1960) 101-7; “The Structure of Job 3,” Bib 49 (1968) 503-08; “The Structure of Psalm 137,” in Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William Foxwell Albright (ed. Hans Goedicke; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1971) 131-41; “Notes and Observations : The Elihu Speeches in the Book of Job,” HTR 61 (1968) 51-59; “Critical Notes: II Samuel 23:4,” JBL 90 (1971) 329-30; “The Broken Construct Chain,” Bib 53 (1972) 543-46; “Prolegomenon” to George Buchanan Gray, The Forms of Hebrew Poetry: Considered with Special Reference to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Old Testament (Library of Biblical Studies; New York: Ktav, 1972) vii-lvi; “The Refrain in David’s Lament over Saul and Jonathan,” in Ex Orbe Religionum: Studia Geo Widengren Oblata (ed. Claas J. Bleeker et al.; SHR 21; Leiden: Brill, 1972) 115-26; “Acrostics and Metrics in Hebrew Poetry,” HTR 65 (1972) 367-92; “Isa 42,13,” CBQ 35 (1973) 225-26; “God Almighty in Psalm 78:59,” Bib 54 (1973) 268; “Strophe and Meter in Exodus 15,” in A Light Unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers (ed. Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim, and Carey A. Moore; Gettysburg Theological Studies 4; Pittsburgh: Temple University Press, 1974) 163-203; “Early Israelite History in the Liight of Early Israelite Poetry,” in Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient Near East (ed. Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1975) 3-35; “Psalm 113 and the Song of Hannah,” ErIs 14 (1975) 56-70; “The Aaronic Benediction (Numbers 6: 24-26),” in No Famine in the Land: Studies in Honor of John L. McKenzie (ed. James W. Flanagan and Anita Weisbrod Robinson; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1975) 35-48; “Divine Names and Titles in Early Hebrew Poetry,” in Magnalia Dei: The Mighty Acts of God: Essays on the Bible and Archaeology in Memory of G. Ernest Wright (ed. Frank Moore Cross, Werner Lemke, and Patrick D. Miller, Jr.; Garden City: Doubleday, 1976) 55-107; “The Twenty-Third Psalm,” in Michigan Oriental Studies in Honor of George G. Cameron (ed. Louis L. Orlin et al.; Ann Arbor: Department of Near Eastern Studies, Univ. of Michigan, 1976) 139-66; “Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: An Essay on Biblical Poetry,” JBL 96 (1977) 5-26; “Early Israelite History and Historical Reconstructions,” in Symposia Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1900-1975) (ed. Frank Moore Cross; Cambridge: ASOR, 1979) 85-96; the preceding eighteen articles are repr. in Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy. Collected Essays on Hebrew Poetry (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1980); “The Poetic Structure of the Framework of Deuteronomy 33,” in The Bible World: Essays in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon (ed. Gary Rendsburg et al.; New York: Ktav, 1980) 25-46; “Prose Practices in the Poetry of the Primary History,” in Biblical and Related Studies presented to Samuel Iwry (ed. Ann Kort and Scott Morschauser; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1985) 49-62; “Acrostic Poems in the Hebrew Bible: Alphabetic and Otherwise,” CBQ 48 (1986) 408-31; “Deliberate Deviation from an Established Pattern of Repetition in Hebrew Poetry as a Rhetorical Device,” in Ninth Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem: Hebrew Univ. Press, 1986) 45-52; “Another Look at Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” in Directions in Biblical Hebrew Poetry (ed. Elaine R. Follis; JSOTSup 40; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987) 11-28; “The Structure of Isaiah 40:1-11,” in Perspectives on Language and Text: Essays in Honor of Francis I. Andersen on His Sixtieth Birthday (ed. Edgar W. Conrad and Edward G. Newing; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1987) 167-93; “On the Death of Abiner,” in Love and Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope (ed. John H. Marks and Robert M. Good; Guildford: Four Quarters, 1987) 125-27; “Patterns in Psalms 24 and 34,” in Priests, Prophets, and Scribes: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Blenkinsopp (ed. Eugene Ulrich et al.; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992) 125-138; the preceding eight articles repr. in Divine Commitment and Human Obligation: Selected Writings of David Noel Freedman. Volume Two: Poetry and Orthography (ed. John R. Huddleston; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997); “The Structure of Psalm 119: Part I,” in Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom (ed. David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman, and Avi Hurvitz; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1995) 725-56; repr. in Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah (BJSUCSD 6; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 25-55; “The Structure of Psalm 119: Part II,” in Biblical and Other Studies in Honor of Reuben Ahroni in Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (ed. Theodore J. Lewis) HAR 14 (1994) 55-87; repr. in Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah (BJSUCSD 6; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 57-81.
Frank Moore Cross and David Noel Freedman (Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry [joint Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1950; SBLDS; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1975; 2d ed.; Biblical Resource Series; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997); Frank Moore Cross and David Noel Freedman, “Some Observations on Early Hebrew,” Bib 53 (1972) 413-20; repr. Divine Commitment and Human Obligation. Volume Two, 61-69; David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan, “Alphabetic Acrostic Psalms,” in David Noel Freedman, Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah (BJSUCSD 6, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 1-23; David Noel Freedman and Andrew Welch, “Conclusion: The Theology of Psalm 119,” in ibid., 87-94; David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan, “Quantitative Measurement in Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” in Ki Baruch Hu: Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine (ed. Robert Chazan, William W. Hallo, and Lawrence H. Schiffman; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 229-49; David Noel Freedman and David Miano, “Non-Acrostic Alphabetic Psalms,” in The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception (ed. Peter W. Flint and Patrick D. Miller, Jr.; VTSup 99; FIOTL 4; Leiden: Brill, 2005) 87-96.
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