Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Bryon:

I think you are confusing grammar with literary style.

While it is true that the examples in Psalms are human caused, that is
a literary stylistic effect that puts it grammatically as an inanimate
event that goes before God's face. In the grammatical sense,
therefore, it is the same as Genesis 6.

I think you are reading something in the text that grammar by itself
does not support.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 4/20/07, B. M. Rocine <brocine AT twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> How about if we exercise just a bit of imagination in reading the poetry
> and see the human supplicants that come as "required attachments" to the
> groan and the petition?
>
> I believe the technical name for the figures in verses you quote is
> metonymy.  The two vv. in Psa are very much about gaining an audience
> with YHWH.
>
> Shalom,
> Bryan
>
> K Randolph wrote:
> > In Psalm 79:11 the subject is a groan, in 88:2 it is my petition.
> >
> > Karl W. Randolph.