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Description of  Focus Construction with k im in Biblical Hebrew (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic)

1646022467 rar This study uses modern linguistic theory to analyze a frequently recurring syntactic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible that has thus far resisted explanation: . The combination of the two particles and produces a construction that is notoriously difficult to describe, analyze syntactically, and translate. Dictionaries of Biblical Hebrew offer a dizzying variety of translations for this construction, including that if, except, unless, but, but only, and surely, among other possibilities. In this book, Grace J. Park provides a new approach that strives for greater precision and consistency in translation. Park argues that is used in three patterns: the full focus pattern, the reduced focus pattern, and the less common non-focus pattern. Her syntactic analysis of all 156 occurrences of the construction in the Bible lends greater clarity to the contested passages. Read more