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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 examples applies to Rashis Dt01-22c Dt01-22d
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/dt01-22c.htm
    Brief Summary: Spies were to find a) easiest CITIES to conquer b) crooked ROADS with potential ambushes

We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicated bullets by using repeating keywords.

That is, if a modern author wanted to get a point across using bullets, a list of similar but contrastive items, then the Biblical Author would use repeating keywords.

    This principle can be illustrated with verse Dt01-22 which discusses Moses' instuction to the spiees: And you came near me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall spy the land, and bring us word
  • Of which road to go up on, [to avoid ambushes on crooked roads] and
  • Of which cities to come to [for conquest.]

Advanced Rashi: In summary Rashi sees the repeating keyword, of, as indicating bullets. The bullets in turn emphasize a group of distinct concerns for spies: the identification of the good roads and the identification of the easy cities to conquer. As usual we have embedded the Rashi comments in the above translation. 


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