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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: #NAME?
      • 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 Ex07-28b Ex07-29a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n6.htm
      Brief Summary: The frogs will come into (a) your house (because you decreed slavery) (b) your servants house (because they supported you) (c) your people's house (because they carried out your decrees)

The climax principle asserts that a sequence of similar phrases should be interpreted climactically even if the words and grammatical constructs used do not directly suggest this. That is the fact of the sequence justifies reading into the Biblical text a climactic interpretation even if no other textual source justifies it. For this reason we consider the climax method a distinct and separate method.

    Verse Ex07-28b discussing the plague of frogs states And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come
    • into your house, and
    • into your bed chamber, and
    • upon your bed,
    and into the house of your servants, and upon your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs;

    Rashi interprets this Biblical paragraph Climactically:
  • First the frogs punished Pharoh himself who decreed the slavery
  • Next the frogs punished the servants of Pharoh who advised him on the slavery
  • Finally the frogs punished the people who accpeted the decrees of the palace without a fight or protest.

Advanced Rashi: #####

We have named this Rashi method, the climax rule. Modern scholars call the same rule, parallelism. Kugel in his book on Biblical parallelism, points out that a proper approach to parallel phrases is not repetition but added meaning in the repeated phrase, for example, climax.


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