GOD CARRIES US
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RASHIS COVERED: Dt32-11a Dt32-11b God carries us thru history
Dt32-11c Dt32-11d
VERY BRIEF SUMMARY:
Dt32-11 poetically describes how God carries us thru history.
God describes the 3 basic components of Gods Carrying us thru
history using poetic analogies & a few words.The stages are
-- AWARENESS OF THE TRIP:God tells us we have a journey
-- THE TRIP VEHICLE:God takes different people in different ways
-- THE PERILS:God tells us the perils of the journey
The description is communicated by analogy with eagle travel
-- AWARENESS The Eagle AWAKENS her young
-- TRIP VEHICLES Eagles HOVER at varying altitudes
-- TRIP PERILS Young are carried on Eagle WINGS
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TODAYS RASHI RULE: STYLE
TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE: POETRY
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF RULE & SUBRULE:
Many Rashis are based on MEANING or GRAMMAR. But some Rashis
are based on STYLE. One Biblical style is the Poetry style
in which the Bible describes an item by listing 3-6
components of the item--each component is tersely listed using
words with catchy nuances. This terse description motivates the
name Poetry method.The proper Rashi method for understanding a
POETRY passage is to
- identify the underlying unifying item
- identify the 3-6 components of this theme
- create a cross-walk between these components
& the verse phrases
STANDARD EXAMPLE & TODAYS LIST
The list below describes the general guidelines
for analyzing a poetic passage. A 2nd list applies these
guidelines to Dt32-11
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STEPS IN ANALYZING POETIC PASSAGE
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APPLICATION TO Dt32-11
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Identify the unifying theme
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God CARRYING us thru history
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Identify 3-6 components of theme
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Trip awareness;vehicle;perils
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Identify key words in verse
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AWAKEN, HOVER, WINGS,CARRY
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Identify nuances of key words
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HOVER=varying positions
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Parallel components & verse phrases
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See the 2nd list below
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Parallelism fills unknown meanings
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*1
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COMMENTS
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*1 That is , the
parallelism IN AND OF ITSELF can
suggest word meanings.
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