ה.......אמ: A Rhetorical question anticipating a negative answer
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Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
The Interrogative sequence ה.......אמ in Biblical Hebrew can be employed in two forms of disjunctive question. The first offer mutually exclusive questions and the second comprises rhetorical pair. Close examination the extant examples reveals no difficulty in distinguishing between these two forms and, further, that , when employed to express a rhetorical question, the double rhetorical sequence ה.......אמ anticipates the answer 'No'. Careful study of a debated example, jer. 31.20, confirms that a negative answer is implied here, hence the evidence strongly favours this reading in the other contentious passage, Hab.3.8. Here triple rhetorical questions introduced by the interrogative particles אמ .......אמ...... are employed in a motivated interrogative sentence suggesting that a negative answer is therefore expected
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The Interrogative sequence ה.......אמ in Biblical Hebrew can be employed in two forms of disjunctive question. The first offer mutually exclusive questions and the second comprises rhetorical pair. Close examination the extant examples reveals no difficulty in distinguishing between these two forms and, further, that , when employed to express a rhetorical question, the double rhetorical sequence ה.......אמ anticipates the answer 'No'. Careful study of a debated example, jer. 31.20, confirms that a negative answer is implied here, hence the evidence strongly favours this reading in the other contentious passage, Hab.3.8. Here triple rhetorical questions introduced by the interrogative particles אמ .......אמ...... are employed in a motivated interrogative sentence suggesting that a negative answer is therefore expected
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