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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: re:a new reading, jonah 2?
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:26:15 -0400


>however, is it possible to read 2:4a ending with wenahar? against the
>accents? it would actually be nicer from a syntactic/parallel point of
>view.

afraid i like the lines as they are:
vatshlixeni metsula -- blvav yammim -- venahar yesoveveni
it's a 2-2-2 off beat of a 3-3, and breaking up the 3-2 of backg\bone of
this very well-done poem..

hebrew poetics like to mix the meter at appropriate points.
notice especially where the meter reverses in jonah 2, i.e. where is goes
to 2-3
at 2.5a and uses 3-4 at 2.7a
both just before positive statements.
which means that "ax" 'but' 2.5b is correct and the frequent emendation to
"ex" 'how?' can be discarded as misguided, overly pessimistic.

braxot
randall buth




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