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37-50) is interrupted in its initial phase by another harsh story, also involving sexual behavior, in which the double standard of Joseph's brother Judah is painfully exposed as he is challenged by his brave daughter-in-law Tarnar. These three texts seem to be intrusions only as long as we ignore the fact that they are all separated from the boundary of their cycle by the space of one story. Thus they form hooks to the adjoining cycles. If we notice this and allow ourselves to be instructed by the key words, we can integrate these passages thematically with their context despite their superficially digressive character.
What must be clone to "restore" the text is to erase the whole second verset of this line and attach the first verset to the next line. But if one considers precisely how lines of biblical poetry are generally constructed, the purported crux dissolves and the whole procedure of emendation becomes gratuitous. For it can readily be shown that in many hundreds of lines in the biblical corpus, the relation between the first verset and the second is narrative: under the umbrella of parallelism or overlapping meaning that covers the two halves of the line, the second action or image follows in time after the first.
97-113. Many examples are also analyzed by Sternberg, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative. Genesis ]. P. Fokkelman G ENESIS is the first of the thirty-six books of the Old Testament, and much in it is used as a basis for or creatively incorporated into numerous passages further on in the Bible. 1 Genesis is the beginning of the Torah, traditionally known as the Five Books of Moses, or the Pentateuch. In the standard edition, the Hebrew text comprises weil over fifteen hundred "verses," which in the Middle Ages were divided, not always happily, into fifty chapters.