International Journal of Language & Linguistics

Text Segmentation in a Gideon Narrative: Reading with the Flow of the Hebrew Text
Nahounou Angenor Yao

Abstract
The principles of text segmentation have often been overlooked in the analysis and translation of biblical narratives. In Hebrew discourse, text segmentation relies on elements of coherence, that is, informational features in and beyond a text to achieve unity. The analysis of Ancient Hebrew narratives can also look at individual constituents making up the plots and the way narrators use these elements to achieve their communicative purposes. Both approaches not only contribute to a proper reading of the Hebrew text but can help in translation to do justice to the discourse pattern of languages that display a different paragraphing pattern. This paper thus looks at some strategies for linguistic and literary analysis and their application to a sample Gideon narrative in the original Hebrew text.

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