This God presented Himself occasionally as a militant, all-powerful warrior, but only in moments when the fortunes of His people were critically at issue.

These moments, however, were exceptional and few; as a rule, God manifested Himself in prophecy, through words and music.

The laws were promulgated in song; so were the prophetic promises, denunciations, and calls to repentance; and there grew up a magnificent liturgical service in the temple.
Hebrew poetry, epic and lyrical, was thus antagonistic to the drama.
So, also, Dr.Chrysander contends, was the Hebrew himself.

Not only had he no predilection for plastic creation, his life was not dramatic in the sense illustrated in Greek tragedy.

He lived a care-free, sensuous existence, and either fell under righteous condemnation for his transgressions or walked in the way prescribed of the Lord and found rest at last in Abraham's bosom.