Ch. 39 Supplements

Requirements

Others

• These two chapters offers more information on historical discourse and paragraphs, connectors, and subordination as well as anticipatory and descriptive discourse.
• Discourse analysis helps us divide a text into blocks of paragraphs, for instance, mainline, offline, embedded speech.
• The conjunctions and particles also signify how clauses are connected.
• Anticipatory discourse normally appears in prophetic speeches. Descriptive discourse in historical narratives normally provides offline information, in embedded speeches is often a declaration of the speaker.

Tips

• תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶֽם in Ezek 36:27 (see the reading passage for the chapter) is usually translated as "you shall be careful to do . . ."