La función sintáctica y poética de los acentos de la masora: ejemplos en el libro de Amós

Abstract

Masoretic accents are quite useful for determining clause boundaries and poetic structure in Hebrew biblical poetry. Verses with ambiguous readings can be clarified by Masoretic accents, which tend to indicate the most widely accepted reading. In passages with complex syntax, the accents scrupulously indicate supra-clausal relationships. In many cases, a specific syntactical form or a stylistic resource requires accentuation which may even supersede the poetic structure of the verse. This study presents an analysis of the Masoretic accents employed in these ways as applied to the Book of Amos’ most syntactically revealing verses.