한국침례신학대학교 도서관

Unit delimitation in the Book of Micah: A text -linguistic approach

주기사항: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 1027.

초록/해제: 요약 : The aim of this research is to delimit the units of the Book of Micah. After a brief survey of scholarship on the structure of Hebrew poetry (chapter 1), a text-linguistic approach that seeks to analyze the structure of a text in general terms and categories that are part of the Hebrew language as a system is proposed. It begins by defining the clause according to the type of the predicate, word order, the conjugation of the verbal predicate, as well as inter-clausal conjunction (chapter 2). Next Hebrew syntax on the level of clause and beyond is examined. Three kinds of clausal relationships are included in the study. The first two types, subordination and coordination, are defined anew in linguistic terms (chapter 3). The third type concerns the notion of sequence (chapter 4). It is a series of clauses that share some of the syntactically significant features, introduced and/or ended by a sequence or a clause that does not share its sameness. By analyzing these three kinds of clausal relationship, it is argued that the coherence of a text could be accounted for and the structure of a text could be determined. This text-linguistic method is applied to the Book of Micah (chapter 5). The result is compared with the division witnessed in MT (chapter 6) and other ancient translations and versions (chapter 7). A summary concludes the research (chapter 8).