Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Rivista Biblica
Angaben zur Quelle:
69,2 (2021) 159-197
Keywords:
Bible Language, style
;
Hebrew language, Biblical Terms and phrases
;
Rhetoric in the Bible
Abstract:
In the biblical texts, repetition is often seen by scholars as an indication of anaddition or of different sources. In the Old Testament, we find a group of discourses characterised by a double or triple repetition of the adverbial expressionועתה within the same discourse. This phenomenon of multiple ועתה affects seventeen texts. In four, we find the triple repetition of ועתה .The present study examines all these texts, seeking to respond to the questions raised by the repetitionof the particle ועתה :why is it necessary to use the same expression twice or threetimes? What are the common characteristics of these discourses, and what is theorigin of this phenomenon? The first part of this study is devoted to the presentation of the general characteristics of ועתה ;the second part concerns the persuasive character of these discourses; the third part consists in the analysis of thefunction of the double or triple ועתה in the structure of the discourses analysed,comparing it with classical rhetoric; the fourth part identifies the sphere of thediscourses with multiple ועתה ;finally, the fifth part is devoted to the importanceof the argumentation introduced by the first ועתה in a specific discourse relatedto the plea for pardon (deprecatio), and to the origins of this rhetorical stratagem.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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