Biblical Hebrew Forum

[lehmann <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>]

The most recent study of sentences like 1Kg 18:39 etc. is only a few
days old:

Anja A. Diesel, Jahwe (allein) ist Gott. Überlegungen zu einer Gruppe der
sogennanten dreiteiligen  Nominalsätze, in: KUSATU vol. 5, 2005.

The volume was delivered last friday, so noone could know (except me...).

Reinhard


> What, therefore, does one say about "pleonastic" pronouns are they
> pleonastic?
>
> Gen. 36:8 ... (&w hw) )dwM
>
> 1Kings 18:39 ... yhwh hw) h)lhyM
>
> If we reduce these to English SVO propositions then the pronoun looks like
> it serves no syntactical purpose. I think calling these "pleonastic"
> probably reveals a weakness in the analysis/methodology.

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