...Well, to put this more precisely, I am assuming that this poem within the context it is found in the book of Judges is considered to be the words of Deborah and Barak. Whether in fact the poem had a different source, known or unknown to the redactor of Judges, or was composed by someone and put on the lips of Deborah and Barak, is irrelevant. Within the literary context, these are the words of Deborah and Barak. And so one would expect Deborah and Barak to refer to themselves in the first person - or even that originally third person references have been changed to first person to fit the context.
It fits the context if you assume that Deborah was the speaker, but
the contextual information that tells you Deborah was the speaker
is secondary since the song is a separate unit and "And Deborah
and Barak sang" is part of the book of Judges which contains it.
Nowhere in the song does it say "I Deborah..." in any place clear.
For all we know, it could be Barak speaking here.
So in short, my "simply wrong" applies to this parsing, but I don'tFair enough. I am not convinced that it is malformed, but I don't have parallels (without 'ani) either. But of course sentences like 'ani YHWH dibbarti (Num 14:35) are known.
really know if it does not exist in Biblical Hebrew, since I have no
tools to search for it. It just seems very malformed and even more
problematic than shaqqamti as Shafel.
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