All The More : A Merged List of 72 Qal Vachomer Arguments in the Tanakh: A Merged List of 72 Qal Vachomer Arguments in the Tanakh

By Sion, Avi, Ph.D.

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Title:	All The More : A Merged List of 72 Qal Vachomer Arguments in the Tanakh: A Merged List of 72 Qal Vachomer Arguments in the Tanakh
Author:	Sion, Avi, Ph.D.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, Biblical A Fortiori Arguments
Collections:	Authors Community, Religion
Historic Publication Date:	2024
Publisher:	Avi Sion

Member Page:	Avi Sion
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Description
ALL THE MORE, by Avi Sion, Ph.D., comprises a merged list of 72 qal vachomer arguments in the Tanakh, i.e. of a fortiori arguments in the Hebrew Bible. This listing brings together lists proposed in past rabbinic literature and in more recent studies by the author. The literature research for it was carried out mainly by R. Yaakov Gabay, who looked into works in Hebrew by five rabbis who had proposed lists, namely: R. Shmuel Yaffe Ashkenazi (Yefeh Toar, 1597), R. Zvi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen (Netivot Olam, 1822), R. Zeev Wolf Einhorn (Midrash Tannaim, 1839), R. Mattityahu Strashun (Mattat Yah, 1892), R. Chaim Hirschensohn (Berure HaMidot, 1928). The author of the present essay brought additional information from the Tanakh commentary of R. Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi, 11th Cent.) and an essay by R. Louis Jacobs (2005), as well as from his own past works (Judaic Logic, 1990, and A Fortiori Logic, 2013). The information thus gathered is here presented in a systematic manner, after careful evaluation by the author of each case with reference to narrative context, language used, and logical form. Efforts are made to identify which cases were known to each of the past authors, and to determine who found each case first and whether subsequent listings of the case (if any) were independent or derivative.

Summary
A Merged List of 72 Qal Vachomer Arguments in the Tanakh, i.e. of a fortiori arguments in the Hebrew Bible.

Excerpt
The following, briefly put, is the full list of 72 Biblical occurrences of qal vachomer proposed in the present essay: Genesis 3:22-23, 4:14, 4:24, 6:3, 11:6, 14:23, 17:17, 18:12, 39:8-9, 44:8; Exodus 6:12, 6:30; Numbers 12:14; Deuteronomy 31:27, 32:39; Judges 14:16; 1 Samuel 14:29-30, 14:39, 17:37, 21:6, 23:3; 2 Samuel 4:10-11, 11:11, 12:18, 12:21, 16:11; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Kings 5:12, 5:13, 10:4, 18:23-24, 18:35; Isaiah 1:3, 10:11, 20:6, 36:8-9, 36:20, 66:1 (a & b); Jeremiah 2:11, 8:7, 12:5 (a & b), 25:29, 45:4-5, 49:12; Ezekiel 3:4-7, 14:13-21, 15:5, 33:24; Jonah 4:10-11; Psalms 25:8-9, 78:20, 94:9 (a & b), 94:10; Proverbs 11:31, 15:11, 17:7, 19:7, 19:10, 21:27; Job 4:18-19, 9:13-14, 15:15-16, 25:5-6, 35:13-14; Esther 9:12; Daniel 2:9, Nehemiah 13:26-27; 2 Chronicles 6:18, 32:15.

Table of Contents
1. A synthesis of old and new information 7 2. The valid forms of a fortiori argument 14 3. Merged list of 72 qal vachomer arguments in the Tanakh 20 4. MISHNA and 2 TALMUDS 32 5. GENESIS RABBAH and after 36 6. R. Shlomo Yitzchaki (RASHI) 43 7. R. Shmuel Yaffe ASHKENAZI 62 8. R. Zvi Hirsch KATZENELLENBOGEN 64 9. R. Zeev Wolf EINHORN 69 10. R. Mattityahu STRASHUN 76 11. R. Chaim HIRSCHENSOHN 83 12. Avi SION in Judaic Logic 110 13. R. Louis JACOBS 113 14. Avi SION in A Fortiori Logic 117 15. The language of Biblical a fortiori discourse 119 16. The point of it all 127 17. Tabulation of detailed results 130 18. Main references 134