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      8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).
      This example applies to Rashis Gn41-50a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n6.htm
      Brief Summary: The Bible uses the passive (was born) to emphasize the time or leadership qualities of the person born

    We ask the following database query: What mode - active vs. passive - is used to indicate birth. The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
  • The active - so and so begat so and so - is the normal style to indicate genealogy
  • The passive - so and so was born to so and so - is used to indicate emphasis on the time or leadership qualities of the person born. The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples.

Verse Style Verse text Emphasis
Gn41-50a Passive And unto Joseph was born two sons before the years of famine came [Rashi: Implying that children should not be born in times of famine (abstention).]
Gn10-21 Passive And to Shem also,was born children the father of all the Eberites, [Emphasizes that Shem and Ever were the major bearers of the monotheistic tradition.]
Gn10-25 Passive And to Eber was born two sons the name of one was Split because during his lifetime the world split up [at the Tower of Babel.] 


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