Rashi’s conceptual and terminological innovations are sometimes difficult to discern because he draws his vocabulary almost exclusively from rabbinic sources. However, as we have seen in the earlier chapters of this study, there are cases in which he uses traditional Hebrew and Aramaic terminology in innovative ways to advance his new interpretive agenda. This is especially true of his usage of the Hebrew term ha-meshorer in the sense of the poet, which is the subject of the current chapter. As we shall see, Rashi innovatively uses this term, as well as the related term kotev ha-sefer, to connote the implied author-narrator of the biblical text. This literary construct is invoked by Rashi to explain scriptural literary structure in ways that are illuminated by the poetic conceptions articulated among his Latin neighbors.