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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, and
  • Of which cities to come to [for conquest.]

    Here the repeating Biblical keyword, Aleph Tauv which we have translated of indicates a bullet effect. The bullets emphasize a group of two items to be searched out by the spies for the conquest. Rashi's task is to emphasize the distinctness of each of these items:
  • Which road to go up: To avoid ambushes in crooked roads
  • Which cities to come to: Which cities are easiest to conquer first.

In summary Rashi sees the repeating keyword as indicating bullets. The bullets in turn emphasize a group of concerns for spies: the identification of the good roads and easy cities to conquer.


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