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Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 150-60. From a text linguistics point of view the use of the . waw+subject+predicate construction at the beginning of v 5 marks this material as background . information; see Alviero Niccacci, The Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose (JSOTSup, 86; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990) 35-41. ................
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