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Second Person Pronoun Positioning and Parallelism in Blessing Formulas

Introduction to Deuteronomy 28:3 Deuteronomy 28:3 opens the list of blessings promised to Israel for obedience. The verse consists of two parallel clauses, both beginning with בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה. The repetition of the second person pronoun אַתָּה in the same syntactic … Continue reading

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