Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin P. Edgecomb" <kevino AT bombaxo.com>]

One of my favorites, and the only I can recall immediately, is Exodus 4.25.  
Whose feet does Zipporah touch with the foreskin?  Who is the "bridegroom of 
blood"?  Is it Moses or YHWH?  Most English translations side with making 
Moses the explicit referent, but the ambiguity exists in Hebrew, of course.

Kevin P. Edgecomb
Berkeley, California


---- "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Can  anyone provided some choice examples from BH narrative of ambiguous
> pronominal reference? I am looking for a story where there are two or more
> participants and there is at least a potential confusion about who is doing
> or saying what to whom?
> 
> I am exploring the relationship between pronominal reference and agency in
> narrative. The idea is that pronominal reference is tied to agent/patient
> roles and only when the agent changes is a full noun phrase required to
> disambiguate reference.
> 
> I would help a lot if I could have some choice problem passages to look at.
> 
> thank you,
> Clay Bartholomew 
>  
> 
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