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| − | Professor Yonatan Grossman has pointed out the numerous literary devices that Tanakh uses to convey the harmonious, orderly nature of creation: | + | <p>Professor Yonatan Grossman has pointed out the numerous literary devices that Tanakh uses to convey the harmonious, orderly nature of creation:</p> |
<subcategory>Epiphora | <subcategory>Epiphora | ||
| − | Epiphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses:  | + | <p>Epiphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses: </p> |
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<li>The creation story is built around the repetition of the phrase “and it was evening and it was morning, ____ day.”  </li> | <li>The creation story is built around the repetition of the phrase “and it was evening and it was morning, ____ day.”  </li> | ||
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| − | The Torah begins with the alliteration of the words “bereshit bara.” | + | <p>The Torah begins with the alliteration of the words “bereshit bara.”</p> |
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<subcategory>Assonance | <subcategory>Assonance | ||
| − | Assonace is repetition of the same vowelization with different consonants: <br/> | + | <p>Assonace is repetition of the same vowelization with different consonants: <br/></p> |
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<li>“tohu vavohu” (1:2);</li> | <li>“tohu vavohu” (1:2);</li> | ||
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| − | <subcategory>Concatenation (linking together of phrases): | + | <subcategory>Concatenation |
| + | <p>(linking together of phrases):</p> | ||
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<li>the heavens and the land. And the land was ...” (1:1-2).</li> | <li>the heavens and the land. And the land was ...” (1:1-2).</li> | ||
Version as of 13:48, 17 June 2023
Literary Devices – Bereshit 1
Structure
Repetition
Professor Yonatan Grossman has pointed out the numerous literary devices that Tanakh uses to convey the harmonious, orderly nature of creation:
Epiphora
Epiphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses:
- The creation story is built around the repetition of the phrase “and it was evening and it was morning, ____ day.”
- “‘Let there be a sky in the midst of the water/ And it will be a separator between water and water’" (1:6)
- "And God made the sky/ And He separated between the water which was below the sky/ And the water above the sky" (1:7)
- "The land produced vegetation – plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds” (1:12).
- “God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.” (1:25)
Alliteration:
The Torah begins with the alliteration of the words “bereshit bara.”
Assonance
Assonace is repetition of the same vowelization with different consonants:
- “tohu vavohu” (1:2);
- “peru urevu” (1:22, 1:28)
- “betzalmenu kedemutenu” (1:26).
Concatenation
(linking together of phrases):
- the heavens and the land. And the land was ...” (1:1-2).
