NuBerea/hebrew-poetry

NuBerea Hebrew Poetry

Computational study of the two signature rhetorical devices of biblical Hebrew verse: chiasmus (mirrored, inverted structure) and semantic parallelism (paired lines that echo or contrast one another). The dataset covers the poetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible with detected and ranked chiastic passages, classified poetry verses, line-segmentation of verses into their paired cola, and scored parallelism judgments — resources for literary, rhetorical, and computational-philology research on Old Testament poetry.

This repository is part of the NuBerea curated corpus estate of biblical and patristic source texts. The public card carries this concept summary; the full specification (schemas, table contracts, per-config detail, methodology) is available in the gated SPEC.md.

License and Attribution

This dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0.

Upstream Source	URL	License
Westminster Leningrad Codex 4.20, J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research	https://www.grovescenter.org/	Public Domain
MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets (Clear Bible, Inc.)	https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/	CC BY 4.0

Scholarly References

• McGovern, H., Sirin, H., & Lippincott, T. (2025). "Computational Discovery of Chiasmus in Ancient Religious Text." arXiv:2501.10739.

NuBerea project. Licensed CC BY 4.0.