Participants in Old Testament Texts and the Translator: Reference Devices and Their Rhetorical Impact (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 39)

In Biblical Hebrew texts, individuals and groups are referred to according to specific rules and conventions. How are participants introduced into a text and traced further? When is this done by means of proper names, when by nouns, and when by pronominal elements? In this book, examples from many Biblical passages illustrate the patterns involved. These rules help to solve problems of participant reference in controversial passages.Hebraists, exegetes and translators will benefit from the wealth of information found in this volume.