Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

Clay, are you aware of the following? I don't know if he deals with your
specific issues, but he does look at some participant reference
problems.

"Discourse-Driven Exegesis: Zechariah 11.4-17" by David J. Clark, The
Bible Translator, vol.50 no.3, July 1999, pp.323-339.

See also:

The Case Of The Vanishing Angel
The Bible Translator, Vol. 33 No. 2 (April, 1982): 213-218
David J. Clark

Notes: The Perils Of Pictures
The Bible Translator, Vol. 34 No. 4 (October, 1983): 440-441
David J. Clark

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: c stirling bartholomew [mailto:cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: 25 April 2002 18:55
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Participant Reference in Zech 11
> 
> M.C. Love*, in a "monograph" on Zech 1-8, discusses the problem of
> ambiguous
> participant reference in the first eight chapters of the book.
> 
> I have been working for several weeks in Zech 11, the shepherd section
and
> so forth. I have discovered the same difficulties that Love speaks of
in
> the
> first part of the book, that is difficulties identifying who is
speaking
> and
> acting. I am wondering if ambiguous participant reference is some sort
of
> literary feature of Hebrew prophecy that I have previously overlooked.
> 
> This is in some sense a language question, since participant reference
is
> a
> feature of the language, but it is also a question about discourse
> strategy.
> 
> All comments are welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Clay
> 
> --
> Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
> Three Tree Point
> P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
> 
> *Love, Mark Cameron. Title The evasive text : Zechariah 1-8 and the
> frustrated reader / Mark Cameron Love. Pub info Sheffield, Eng. :
> Sheffield
> Academic Press, c1999.
>