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Linafelt, Tod, Claudia V. Camp, and Timothy Beal, (eds.) The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon
Review of Hutton, Jeremy, The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History
Review of Gärtner-Brereton, Luke, The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: The Determinate Function of Narrative “Space” within the Biblical Hebrew Aesthetic (BibleWorld; Oakville, CT; Equinox, 2008).
The Morphology of the tG- Stem in Hebrew and Tirgaltî in Hos 11:3
TheMasoreticText(MT)ofHos11:3areads ְוָאֹנִכי ִתְרַגְּלִתּי ְלֶאְפַרִים Although the entire verse is difficult, the form and . ָק ָחם ַעל־ ְזרוֹעֹ ָתיו meaning of the word ִתּ ְר ַגּ ְל ִתּי (tirgaltî) has been especially problematic for interpreters from the beginning of attempts to These difficulties emerge from the morphological peculiarities of the word, as well as from the lexicographic difficulties it presents. The present article proceeds from the conviction that an adequate solution to the second problem—lexicography—requires a sufficiently comprehensive answer to the first problem—morphology. Unfortunately, although we remain optimistic that a lexicological answer to the questionable semanticfieldofthewordִתְּרַגְּלִתּי mayeventuallybegiven,suchan explanation cannot be made without significant exegetical elaboration, space for which is unavailable in the confines of the present article. Therefore, the explicit goal of the present article is to propose a solution to the former problem—the morphology of . ִתּ ְר ַגּ ְל ִתּ