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  • From: Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: 2 Kings 1:6
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:23:18 -0500 (CDT)


By the way, speaking of convoluted, 2 Kings 1:6 has four embedded
levels of quoting (five if you count the outermost narrative "And they
said to him" separately). This was one of the guinea-pig verses in
chap 3 of my dissertation (though because of accentual complexity, not
quotational complexity).


And they said to him,

"A man came up to us, and he said to us,

`Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him,

"Thus says the LORD:

`Is there no God in Israel that you must send to
inquire of Baal-Zebub the God of Ekron? Therefore
the bed which you went up into, you shall not come
down out of it, but shall surely die.' " ' "


Can anyone think of a verse with even more embedded levels?

--
Henry Churchyard churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/



  • 2 Kings 1:6, Henry Churchyard, 09/28/1999

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