Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>]

At 11:15 AM 6/26/2003 -0400, Liz Fried wrote:
>Are these the only uses of first person in the bible, Kohelet, Ezra and
>Nehemiah?
>Oh, I guess the Psalms too.

And Deuteronomy.

Yigal

>Does Longman discuss the use of first person, has anyone?
>Thanks,
>liz
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Trevor & Julie
>> Peterson
>> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:37 AM
>> To: 'Biblical Hebrew'
>> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Qohelet Genre T.Longman
>>
>>
>> Peter wrote:
>>
>> > I wonder
>> > if such deliberate confusion of genres ever happened in ancient times,
>> > or if writers really kept truth and fiction separate. Of course that
>> > impacts historicity discussions - is a text either all truth or all
>> > fiction, or can it be a mixture? - but we are not supposed to get into
>> > that one here.
>>
>> This is part of what bothered me about Longman's argument. Again, I'm
>> not trying to say that Qohelet really was written by Solomon, but if
>> it's a matter of arguing that it was not, I don't know how much his
>> genre categories do to help that case. For one thing, I don't recall
>> where he ever distinguished fictional autobiography from real
>> autobiography (if there was such a thing). How do we know that the form
>> was not the same regardless (or that the distinction is meaningless,
>> since all story-telling has some fiction to it)?
>>
>> Trevor Peterson
>> CUA/Semitics
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