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Analyzing זֶה Grammar and Reading זֶה Texts of Ps 68:9 and Judg 5:5

What it is about

The paper argues that grammar and literary reading must check each other, using the demonstrative זֶה. Following Diessel's typology, Hebrew זֶה is deictic and pronominal ("This is the sign of the covenant", Gen 9:12) or adnominal ("this land", Gen 12:7); it also grammaticalized into a copula-like element in questions ("Are you my son Esau?", Gen 27:21) and, rarely and mainly in poetry, a relative marker (Ps 104:8). The disputed phrase זֶה סִינַי in Judg 5:5 and Ps 68:9 has often been read, on comparative Semitic grounds, as a determinative "the One of Sinai" (like Ugaritic or Arabic ḏū); Holmstedt shows that no other example supports that use and that the poetic parallelism fits the Masoretic reading, with זֶה as a pronominal demonstrative. An appendix lists mis-analysed examples, many from the Torah, of זֶה with a time or count phrase: "This is twenty years (that) I have been with you" (Gen 31:38), "This is three times!" (Num 22:28).

Ideas

For Mova

I1 is a head-rule check in tools/macula (UD conventions, 13-mova-tools.md section 6) and a note in Syntax: the clause and the sentence (verbless clauses). I2 goes into 05-pronouns-particles.md (demonstratives). I3 is a candidate for the evaluate family in tools/macula/src/prag.rs, measured against JPS ("these three times").

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a8

@article{holmstedt2014analyzing,
  title = {{Analyzing זֶה Grammar and Reading זֶה Texts of Ps 68:9 and Judg 5:5}},
  author = {Holmstedt, Robert D.},
  journal = {Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 14},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a8}
}

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