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    7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
    BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
    • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
    • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
    • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
    • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
    This example applies to Rashis Ex03-11a Ex03-11b
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn26-12a.htm

A modern author who wishes to indicate special emphasis to each item in a list uses bullets to indicate this emphasis. By bulleting the reader is asked to dwell for a moment on each list item and listen to its nuances. In my article Biblical Formatting that just appeared in the Jewish Bible Quarterly,and available on the world wide web, I have explained that when the Biblical Author wishes to indicate special emphasis on each member of a list, repeated keywords are used. The repeated keywords should be interpreted as the equivalent of a bulleted format. The following example illustrates this.

    Verse Ex03-11 presenting Moses' protestation against taking the Jews out of Egypt states And Moses said to God, Who am I,
    • that I should go to Pharaoh, and
    • that I should bring forth the people of Israel out of Egypt?
    Rashi interprets the repeated connective keywords as indicating a bullet format. The bullets create a contrastive emphasis requiring focusing on each underlined item. Hence the Rashi comment:
    • Who am I that I should argue against a difficult king like Pharoh
    • Who am I that I should be a leader of an obstinate and difficult people like the Jews


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