Literary Devices – Bereshit 17/0

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Literary Devices – Bereshit 17

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Structure

Parallels and Contrasts

Key Words

Character Titles

God

  • Elokim – This is the name used for Hashem throughout most of the chapter.
  • Hashem – The narrator refers to Hashem by His proper name Hashem in verse 1.
  • El Shaddai – Hashem identifies Himself as “אֵל שַׁדַּי ” in 17:1. See the concordance and R. Yosef Ibn Kaspi that in almost every context in which this name for Hashem appears in Sefer Bereshit, it is associated with a divine blessing of offspring and land.1