Biblical Hebrew Forum

[a.c.smith AT juno.com (Andrew C Smith)]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:26:13 -0600 lorencrow AT earthling.net (Loren Crow)
writes:

>Seriously, though, this phrase plays an important part in the
>characterization of both speaker and person/s spoken to in biblical
>narratives.  When Saul addresses Samuel and speaks of yhwh as yhwh thy
>(singular) God, this tells us something important about Saul and 
>Samuel, and their relationship.

Loren -

Are you saying that Hebrew has a formal and informal second person, like
French or German?

Yet Moses switches back and forth between "the Lord your God" and "the
Lord y'all's God" in the middle of one speech to the same crowd of
people.

A.C. Smith

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