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the one that best captures the quiddity of the Hebrew

the laconic report of Joseph's response to his brothers works by starving us of information

The paratactic verses with their repeated 'and' move like the hands of those large old railway-station clocks that jolted visibly from minute to minute

Biblical style is famous for its stony reticence, for a mimesis that Erich Auerbach called 'fraught with background'

How could Vidia not have wanted to defend his father as soon as the Oxonian looked down his nose at him?