(3 semester hours)
After completing this course, students will have applied methods for studying
grammar at the discourse level to Biblical Hebrew texts. They will be
able to describe discourse features of Biblical Hebrew in at least three
of the following areas: theme, deixis (participant reference), coherence
and cohesion; information structure (new and old information, backgrounding
and foregrounding), and highlighting (contrast, prominence, and emphasis),
and forms of quoted speech. They will also have used computer-based tools
in studying the discourse structure of selected texts from the Hebrew
Bible.