Bicola-Focusing in the Poetic Book of Job
Keywords:
Biblical Hebrew syntax, Pragmatic Linguistics, Biblical Hebrew, the Book of JobAbstract
This article investigates the word order in the biblical Book of Job by analysing focus structures within the bicola of the book. The theory of focusing that is developed in this article is based on Adina Moshavi’s work on focus structures. The conditions that need to be met for a focus structure to occur, as well as the typology of focusing, will be developed. There is also a brief analysis of the placement of (bicola) focusing within the poetic Book of Job.
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