Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

Yigal Levin wrote:

> At 11:15 AM 6/26/2003 -0400, Liz Fried wrote:
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> > Are these the only uses of first person in the bible, Kohelet, Ezra and
> > Nehemiah?
> > Oh, I guess the Psalms too.
> >    
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> And Deuteronomy.
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> Yigal
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>  
The first person parts of Deuteronomy are in long sections of direct 
speech, clearly introduced as such. There is direct speech in the first 
person in every Bible book.

How about Proverbs 30, and 31:1-9? These can of course be understood as 
direct speech introduced in v.1 of each chapter, but in that case so can 
all the psalms with titles. And there are some first persons in 
Lamentations not obviously in direct speech, e.g. 2:11, 3:1, all chapter 5.

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