Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]

Well, of course the Hebrew Bible is full of expository and procedural 
discourse embedded in historical narrative - it's called direct 
speech. How does your idea tie up with that?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: 1 sam 1, subchain proposal
Author:  596547 AT ican.net at internet
Date:    29/11/1998 19:09


EUREKA!  HE'S FOUND IT!

Exactly.  E.g., in 1 Sam 1 we have Expository Discourse which has a 
verbless clause for its mainline.  We also have Procedural Discourse 
which has weqatal for its mainline.  But both the Expository and the 
Procedural are embedded within or hosted by the Historical Narrative 
with its wayyiqtol mainline. So the Expository and Procedural, while 
having their own mainlines, are also themselves off-the-line relative 
to the host Historical Narrative.  In fact, in vv. 1-3 we may even 
have Procedural embedded inside Expository, which in turn is also 
embedded within the H. Narrative.   I think one of my last posts 
suggests the structure graphically....