Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Shoshanna Walker wrote:

> The Torah is very specific at all times, every word, every letter, 
> every time there is a large letter, or a small letter, or a missing 
> letter - it is always for a reason, never random.
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HH: I didn't say there was no reason. I gave many reasons. The Bible was 
a human as well as a divine book. God had human beings write about all 
sorts of things, even write poems, songs, and parables. So he let them 
use their own minds, even if he guided them. So the Bible speaks with 
many voices, as well as the one divine voice. People express things 
differently, think differently. There does not have to be a single 
divine reason for the presence or absence of a copulative verb. As I said:

> It could reflect the writer's
> style, his mood, his flow of thought, the tone he wants to create, the
> rhythm, or even his space on a line of writing material.
>  

Yours,
Harold Holmyard