A Systematic Grammar of Discourse Analysis: Textlinguistics and the Hebrew Bible Patrick Anani Etougé, PhD Finally, a Hebrew grammar that goes beyond the sentence. Most Hebrew grammars stop at the clause. They teach you how to parse a verb, identify a subject, and translate a line—but they leave you asking the question every serious reader eventually faces: How do these clauses hold together as a text? This volume answers that question. Drawing on the best of modern textlinguistics—from Longacre and Levinsohn to Halliday, Niccacci, and Dawson—it provides a comprehensive, step-by-step framework for analyzing Hebrew discourse as a unified whole. You will learn to identify text-types, track participants through narrative, recognize peak-marking devices, chart verb-rank clines, and see how cohesion and coherence work across entire passages. Designed for students, pastors, translators, and scholars, this book is both a theoretical introduction and a practical manual. It includes: A clear survey of the major schools of textlinguistics A full taxonomy of Hebrew text-types and their main-line forms Detailed case studies from Genesis, Judges, Ruth, Jonah, the Psalms, and Leviticus A proven nine-step process for discourse analysis Appendices with columnar displays, verb-rank charts, a glossary, and a transliteration guide Whether you are reading Hebrew for exegesis, translation, or preaching, this grammar will change the way you see the text—not as a string of clauses, but as a structure of meaning. "The text is not a collection of clauses; it is a structure of meaning. The clauses are the building blocks, but the building is not the blocks."