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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 Dt18-20a Dt18-20b
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n4.htm
    Brief Summary: A False prophet EITHER a) incorrectly cites God OR b) cites other gods (even on correct laws).

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.

    Verse Dt18-20 describing the sin of false prophecy is written in such a bulleted fashion: But the prophet,
    • that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
    • that shall speak in the name of other gods,
    that same prophet shall die.'     Here the Bible indicates bulleting by repeating the underlined connective keyword that.

    The bulleted lists indicates emphasis - both bullets are false prophecy. Rashi clarifies: A false prophet either
    • Falsely cites God or
    • cites idolatrous gods
    In other words a prophet can be classified as false if either
    • The content is false (but the source, God, is the true God), or
    • The source is false (but the content, may be a real Jewish law)

Advanced Rashi: People sometimes ask me: "But the verse did not explicitly say States a correct law in the name of idolatrous gods - how did Rashi know this? The answer comes from mathematical logic. Rashi points out that the verse requires falsehood in either content or source. Logic teaches us that to emphasize the two parameters we should consider true content but false source and false content but true source. Thus Rashi's clarification is a routine application of mathematical logic to a disjunctive criteria (That is, a criteria with an either-or condition). 


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