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Bulleting in the Bible |
EXAMPLE 4: Ex03-11a BULLET 1: PHaroh is a hard king
EXAMPLE 5: Ex03-11b BULLET 2: Jews are a tough people
BACKGROUND
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When you type in English you can use a variety of TYPING EFFECTS
such as
- indentation
- paragraphing
- bold, italics, underline
- bullets
- tables
These techniques were not DIRECTLY available to the Biblical
Author. However they were used in the Bible.One of Rashis 6 main
tasks was to indicate how the Bible implemented TYPING EFFECTS.
We show one example in this background section and then present
different examples every day.
THE TEXT-Gn26-12
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And Isaac sowed and produced in
- THAT land
- THAT year
100 fold.
THE RULE
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The Bible indicates BULLETS by using REPEATING KEYWORDS. The
effect of these BULLETS is to place emphasis on EACH item. The
examples will clarify
THE RASHI
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The verse places an emphasis on BOTH the LAND and the YEAR. This
indicates that there were 2 aspects to the miracle
-- it was a bad year for growth(eg a famine year) but Isaac
sowed 100 fold
-- it was a bad land for growth(eg other lands like Israel
had more fertile land), but nevertheless Isaac sowed
100 fold
THE LIST:TODAYS EXAMPLE Ex03-11a
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The verse, Ex03-11a with its bulleted structure is depicted below
For clarity the verse is repeated a second time with an asterisk
* to show how it would look in modern notation
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| PHRASE1 |
REPEATED KEYWORD |
ITEM EMPHASIZED |
| Moses said |
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| who am I |
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THAT |
I should go to PHAROH |
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& THAT |
I should take the JEWS out |
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| Moses said |
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| Who am I |
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| that |
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I should go to PHAROH |
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I should take the JEWS out |
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COMMENTS |
*1 The repeated keyword [THAT] can be interpreted as a BULLET
Without the bullet the focus of the sentence would be that
Moses didnt want to free the Jews from Pharoh
However the bullet draws attention to 2 difficulties
in this refusal
-- Pharoh was a difficult king to negotiate with
-- The Jews were misbehaving and not worthy of redemption
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