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  • From: "Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: wayyiqtol test, Gen 42:6-17, edition
  • Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:23:46 -0500



sorry all, I said something a bit silly in a post replying to Dave W. I
wrote:

>Gen 42:8 drops us, like a
> revisited beginning, in the middle of a story.

revisited beginning in the middle? now if you can make sense out of
that!!! ;-)

Reworded: With Gen 42:8's vayaker the narrator is signalling the reader,
"Let's start again from back here," and he uses a form that suggests the
middle of a story.

Bryan




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