TIP of the day: God's Hebrew instructions

Some of you may have noticed an exchange in the forums where I complained about out of date Andersen-Forbes genre codes documentation and Eli Evans of Faithlife replied that he had updated it. He also added a couple of examples of its use which I am placing here in the forums.

You may also consider this a second post on the topic of reported speech, the first being limited to the words of Christ; this one being limited to the Hebrew Old Testament, and a future post will cover all instances but in less detail than the Andersen-Forbes genre coding.

1. AFAT genres are documented in the wiki: https://wiki.logos.com/AFAT_genres Options are:

Categories by type

Narrative

• ntv – Narrative (Author-to-Reader)
• ntv-h2h – Narrative (Human-to-Human)
• ttl – Title (Author-to-Reader)
• ttl-h2h – Title (Human-to-Human)
• gnl – Genealogy (Author-to-Reader)

Reported Speech

Divinity-to-Divinity

• instr-d2d – Instruction (Divinity-to-Divinity)
• prd/prm-d2d – Prediction/Promise (Divinity-to-Divinity)
• req-d2d – Request (Divinity-to-Divinity)
• sit-d2d – Situation (Divinity-to-Divinity)

Divinity-to-Human

• div-acc – Divine Accusation
• div-crs – Divine Curse
• div-grt – Divine Greeting
• div-instr – Divine Instruction
• div-jdg – Divine Judgment
• div-ora – Divine Oracle
• div-oth – Other Divine Speech
• div-prd/prm – Divine Prediction/Promise
• div-req – Divine Request
• div-sit – Divine Situation
• div-slq – Divine Soliloquy
• div-woe – Divine Woe and Dirge

Human-to-Divinity

• bls-2div – Blessing to Divinity
• lam-2div – Lamentation to Divinity
• oth-2div – Other Human-to-Divinity Speech
• prd/prm-2div – Prediction/Promise to Divinity
• qrl-div – Quarrel with Divinity
• req-2div – Request to Divinity
• sit-h2d – Situation (Human-to-Divinity)
• spl-2div – Supplication to Divinity

Human-to-Human

• bls – Blessing (Human-to-Human); Blessing
• crs – Curse (Human-to-Human); Curse
• gnl-h2h – Genealogy (Human-to-Human)
• grt – Greeting (Human-to-Human); Greeting
• instr – Instruction (Human-to-Human); Instruction
• jdg – Judgment (Human-to-Human)
• lam – Lamentation (Human-to-Human)
• oth – Other Human-to-Human Speech; Other
• prm – Promise (Human-to-Human); Promise
• proph – Prophecy (Human-to-Human); Prophecy
• prs – Praise (Human-to-Human); Praise
• qrl – Quarrel (Human-to-Human)
• req – Request/Question (Human-to-Human); Request/Question; Request
• sit – Situation (Human-to-Human); Situation
• prd/prm – Prediction/Promise (Human-to-Human); Prediction/Promise
• slq – Soliloquy (Human-to-Human); Soliloquy
• sp-dlg – Speech in Dialogue (Human-to-Human); Speech in Dialogue
• spl – Supplication (Human-to-Human); Supplication
• torah – Moses Torah (Human-to-Human); Moses Torah
• wis – Wisdom (Human-to-Human); Wisdom
• woe – Woe and Dirge (Human-to-Human); Woe and Dirge

Other

• angel/human-exchange – Angel-and-Human Exchange
• clay2human-exchange – Clay-to-Human Exchange
• donkey/human-exchange – Donkey-and-Human Exchange
• holyone2human-exchange – Holy One-to-Human Exchange
• satan/god-exchange – Satan-and-God Exchange
• snake/human-exchange – Snake-and-Human Exchange
• spirit/god-exchange – Spirit-and-God Exchange
• tree/tree-exchange – Tree-and-Tree Exchange

2. A simple example of a search for reported speech: Divine instructions: The search argument is: <AndersenForbesGenre = qrl-div>. Note it is easy to convert this search into a Visual filter to have the Hebrew highlighted by genre.

3. The genre coding is also useful for limiting a search to a particular genre. Eli's example: @Vh WITHIN <AndersenForbesGenre = qrl-div> which finds Hifil-stem verbs within quarrels with divinity.