Focus Construction with kî′im in Biblical Hebrew Park Paperback 9781646022465

Focus Construction with k ?im in Biblical HebrewAuthor(s): Grace J. Park\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Eisenbrauns\nISBN-13: 9781646022465, 978-1646022465\nSynopsis\nThis study uses modern linguistic theory to analyze a frequently recurring syntactic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible that has thus far resisted explanation: ?? ??.\n\nThe 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 synta.