Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

pleonasm and nuance both represent good literary tools

but ....

the bad of it all = not knowing whether we have pleonasm, nuance, or both
present in these two verses.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

> First of all, who said that pleonasm is a bad thing. In some literary
> traditions, repeating an idea for emphasis using different words is a sign
> of the author's literary ability.
>
> Second, nuance is often something that is very hard to define, and to a
> large extent depends on the conventions developed by the speakers of a
> language. Since our corpus of biblical Hebrew is so limited, there may be
> some things that we just will never really understand.
>
> Yigal Levin
>
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> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of fred burlingame
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:31 PM
> To: B-Hebrew
> Subject: [b-hebrew] guess work
>
> in deuteronomy 1:12, the two words signifying "load" or "burden" appear to
> have the same basic meaning.
>
> likewise, deuteronomy 1:13, the three words signifying "intelligence,"
> "knowledge," or "wisdom" appear to enjoy a very similar base meaning.
>
> how is it possible to know which nuanced direction each of the words shifts
> (north, south, east or west from base meaning) in this instance; ... and in
> order to avoid the conclusion of pleonasm?
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
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