As it is written and other citation formulae in the Old Testament : their use, development, syntax and significance / Kevin L. Spawn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spawn, Kevin L.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 311.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 311

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Language, style.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Quotation in the Bible.

Physical Description:

xvii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2002.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Present State of the Analysis of Citation Formulae in the Old Testament and a Way Forward 1

II. The Lack of Consensus and Method in Scholarship 2

III. The Significance of the Proper Reading of Citation Formulae 12

IV. The Development of a Method 14

Chapter 2 Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 21

II. [characters not reproducible] Citation Bases with Non-Legal Referents 22

A. The Regnal Source Formulae 22

1. A Categorisation of the Evidence 22

2. An Analysis of the Elements of the Regnal Source Formulae 26

a. The First Element 26

i. The Terms Used in the First Element 26

ii. The Syntax and Semantic Nature of the Nominal Phrases of the First Element 30

b. The Second Element 32

c. The Third Element 34

3. The Relation Between the First Three Elements of the Four-Part Citation Formulae 34

4. The Chr's Alteration of Certain Regnal Source Formulae 40

B. Other Citation Bases with Non-Legal Referents 49

2. Laments 49

3. "The Book of the Just" 52

4. Genealogies 65

5. The Book of Prophecies 66

6. Official Correspondence 68

7. Court Annals 69

C. Conclusions regarding the Use of [characters not reproducible] with Non-Legal Referents 70

III. [characters not reproducible] Citation Bases with Legal Referents 71

A. Relative Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 71

1. Relative Participles 71

2. [characters not reproducible] in Relative Clauses 77

B. Comparative Constructions with [characters not reproducible] 78

1. [characters not reproducible] in a Complex Comparative Sentence 78

2. [characters not reproducible] in Prepositional Phrases Introduced with [characters not reproducible] 79

a. Jenni's Recent Summary of the Syntax of Comparative Statements 79

b. An Overview of the Types of Syntactic Relations of [characters not reproducible] 82

c. An Expanded Analysis of the Types of Syntactic Relations of [characters not reproducible] 88

C. [characters not reproducible] Citation Bases with Legal Referents 119

IV. Conclusions regarding the Use of [characters not reproducible] in Citation Bases with Non-Legal and Legal Referents 121

Chapter 3 Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] 124

I. Relative Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 124

A. The Forms of the Independent Relative Citation Base with [characters not reproducible] 124

1. The Participial Form 125

2. The Form [characters not reproducible] with a Finite Verb 126

B. The Forms of the Independent Citation Base Construed with Other Terms 137

1. The Participial Form 137

a. The Independent Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 137

b. The Independent Citation Base with [characters not reproducible] 139

2. The Finite Verb Form 139

a. The Independent Citation Base with a Negative Particle 140

b. The Independent Citation Base with [characters not reproducible] 140

c. The Independent Citation Base with [characters not reproducible] 141

d. The Independent Citation Base with Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 142

C. Compound Citation Bases 142

1. The Most Common Compound Citation Base 142

2. Other Compound Citation Bases 148

D. Rubric - "A Distinct Literary Convention" 148

1. The Independent Rubric 149

2. Compound Rubrics 150

E. [characters not reproducible] Functioning as a Comparative Clause 151

Excursus: Genre 152

II. Comparative Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] 153

B. Comparative Clauses with [characters not reproducible] 153

1. The Independent Form of [characters not reproducible] 154

a. Citation Bases that Qualify One Clause 154

b. Citation Bases that Qualify More Than One Clause 161

i. Citation Bases that Qualify Two Clauses 161

ii. Citation Bases that Qualify Three Clauses 164

iii. Citation Bases that Qualify Four Clauses 164

iv. Citation Bases that Qualify Five Clauses 165

v. Citation Bases that Qualify a "Paragraph" 166

2. [characters not reproducible] Used with Broadening Terms 169

a. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] 169

b. [characters not reproducible] and the Impersonal [characters not reproducible] 172

c. Pro-Forms with [characters not reproducible] Citation Bases 173

a) The Independent Form of [characters not reproducible] with Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 173

b) Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] with [characters not reproducible] 174

ii. Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 176

a) The Independent Form of [characters not reproducible] with Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 176

b) Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] with [characters not reproducible] 179

iii. Other "Pro-Forms" 180

d. Non-Recurring Forms 180

3. Compound Citation Bases 181

4. Conclusions regarding the Comparative Citation Bases Introduced with [characters not reproducible] 184

C. Vergleichsprapositionalen with [characters not reproducible] 185

2. The Deuteronomistic Literature 186

3. The Post-Exilic Historiography 189

a. The Citation of the [characters not reproducible] with [characters not reproducible] 189

b. The Citation of Legal and Cultic Authorities with [characters not reproducible] 192

Chapter 4 Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] 196

I. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in Relative Citation Bases 196

II. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in Comparative Citation Bases 196

A. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in a Comparative Clause 197

B. [characters not reproducible] in Vergleichsprapositionalen 197

1. Non-Legal Referents 197

a. Vergleichsprapositionalen with a Non-Legal Referent that Qualify One Clause 197

i. Independent Citation Base 198

ii. Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 200

b. Vergleichsprapositionalen with a Non-Legal Referent that Qualify Two Clauses 201

c. A Vergleichsprapositionale with a Non-Legal Referent that Qualifies a Noun 203

2. Legal Referents 204

a. Independent Citation Bases 204

i. Vergleichsprapositionalen that Qualify One Clause 204

ii. A Vergleichsprapositionale that Qualifies Two Clauses 208

iii. A Vergleichsprapositionale that Qualifies an Infinitive Phrase 208

iv. [characters not reproducible] that Qualifies a Noun Phrase 209

v. The Citation Base [characters not reproducible] and Succoth 211

b. The Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 215

c. Compound Citation Bases 215

Chapter 5 Other Citation Bases 218

II. Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 218

A. The Independent Citation Base 219

B. Broadening Terms with the Independent Form 220

1. [characters not reproducible] with [characters not reproducible] 221

2. [characters not reproducible] with Pro-Form [characters not reproducible] 221

C. Compound Citation Bases 222

III. Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 224

A. Independent Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 224

1. Citation Bases that Qualify One Clause 224

2. A Citation Base that Qualifies an Infinitive 224

3. A Citation Base that Qualifies a Noun or Nominal Phrase 225

4. A Citation Base that Qualifies a Particle 225

IV. Citation Bases with [characters not reproducible] 226

VI. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] and Their Nominal Cognates 229

A. [characters not reproducible] and its Nominal Cognate 230

1. Relative Constructions 230

2. Comparative Citation Bases 230

a. Citation Bases in a Comparative Clause 230

b. Vergleichsprapositionale Citation Bases 231

B. [characters not reproducible] and its Nominal Cognate 232

I. The Syntax of Comparative Statements 236

II. The Use, Development, and Significance of Citation Bases 238

A. Citation Bases with Non-Legal Referents 238

B. Citation Bases with Legal

Referents 241

III. Previous Scholarship 251

IV. Future Research 255.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-276) and indexes.

ISBN:

3110171619

OCLC:

48386076