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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] We and us
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:08:21 +1100

Have a look at:

Driver, S. R. 1882. “On Some Alleged Linguistic Affinities of the Elohist.” Journal of Philology 11: 201-236.

Revell, E. J. 1995. “The Two Forms of First Person Singular Pronoun in Biblical Hebrew: Redundancy or Expressive Contrast?” Journal of Semitic Studies 40: 199-217.

Revell, E. J. 1996. The Designation of the Individual: Expressive Usage in Biblical Narrative. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 14. Kampen: Kok Pharos.

Rezetko, Robert. 2003. “Dating Biblical Hebrew: Evidence from Samuel–Kings and Chronicles.” Pages 215-250 in Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology. Edited by Ian Young. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 369. London: T & T Clark.

Rosén, Haiim B. 1984. “אנכי et אני: Essai de grammaire, interprétation et traduction.” Pages 262-281 in East and West: Selected Writings in Linguistics. Munich: Fink.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


Good question.

I notice that "ani" is used a little more than twice as often as
"anoki", but that both terms are used by the same people. That would
indicate that some difference in emphasis or meaning that they
recognized. But what it was, may have been lost.

Has anyone made a detailed study?

Karl W. Randolph.

On 11/11/06, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:
Dear All,

Does anyone think that there is a semantic or any other difference is use or
meaning between "anu" and "anaxnu"? Or, for that matter, between "ani" and
"anokhi"? Are they used in different genres, are they preferred by different
literary sources?

What do y'all think?

Yigal Levin





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