Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

hey, paul,

grad students??? in my dreams! <big sigh> might get a chance to teach
a grad course this year, still subject to funding approval: that'd be
exciting.

re exegesis: i think the phrasing, etc, is actually important in this
respect. Price's books, etc, have made that point most emphatically.
when i need an example, can't think of better than the difference between

a voice crying out, "in the wilderness ..." (rabbinical phrasing)
vs
a voice crying out in the wilderness, "..." (you know who)

cheers
V 
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1

Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/
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The mind takes to a new idea the way the body takes to microbe:
It rejects it.  --P.D. Medawar