Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Deborah Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>]

L. Fried asked:

> So does Longman or anyone discuss 
> the use of first person?

I don't know of anyone who specifically employs use of
the first person as one of the criteria for
identifying biblical "fiction" (my hunch is that the
hypothesis would fall flat...but test-drive it anyway.
 Who knows...?), however Cindy Miller, as you likely
are aware, has written quite a bit on "direct speech"
and "quotative frames" within the narrative genre
(maybe a little on poetry too), the content of which
often includes ANI or ANOKHI and other inflected forms
of the first person.

KOL TUV,
-- Michael Millier


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