Thesiss

Pharaoh's command in Gen 41:55—“Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do”—aptly summarizes the breadth of authority Joseph attains in Egypt and the means by which he exercises it: direct speech. By interpreting Egyptian dreams, Joseph establishes himself as a “wise and discerning” …

Biblical Hebrew grammar is typically founded on an analysis of how verbal features function within narrative, since narrative is the most prominent discourse type in the Hebrew Bible. In contrast, this study adopts the approach of analyzing grammatical features within direct dis…