Abstract
This chapter focuses upon the peculiar distribution of certain verbs that mark DD in biblical Hebrew. The centrality of speech as a metaphor for central religious concepts in early Judaism and Christianity is reflected in the logos of Philo and the New Testament. This peculiarity reaches its peak in the book of Leviticus and the first part of the book of Numbers. But biblical Hebrew found it inconsequential to mark externally a question in DD any differently from an asseveration in the indicative mood. In this discussion, no distinction is made between the active (hiphil) and passive (hophal) forms of this verb simply because there is no way to control the contrast in the present texts when the subject is unspecified. Therefore, the literary diction that concentrates only in the Hebrew Bible reflects one aspect of the persistence of old Canaanite conventions in Hebrew literature.Keywords: biblical Hebrew; Christianity; Judaism; selected verbs
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