Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

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