[b-hebrew] Verbs in Hebrew poetry
Phil Sumpter
philsumpter at hotmail.com
Sat May 2 08:36:29 EDT 2009
I recently posted a request for tips on resources for this topic to the Biblical Studies List and The Biblicalist, particularly in respect to qatal/yiqtol sequences. I've collected suggestions below and would be grateful for any further tips, as well as any critical comments on the theories proposed (Niccacci, for example, seems to part company with Berlin and Tatu by treating qatal/yiqtol sequences in parallelism as also having some kind of temporal dimension). [p.s. I've posted this too my blog, in case you want to update it there: http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/bibliography-for-verb-system-in.html]
Adele Berlin, "Grammatical Aspects of Biblical Parallelism," in Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979), 17-43.
Peter C. Craigie, "Excursus II: The Translation of Tenses in Hebrew Poetry," in
vol. 19, Word Biblical Commentary (2nd ed.; Word Biblical Commentary Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Reference & Electronic, 2004), 110-113.
Alviero Niccacci. "Poetic Syntax and Interpretation of Malachi." Liber Annuus 51 (2001): 55-107.
_____."The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in Poetry" in Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives (Eisenbrauns, 2006).
Diethelm Michel, Tempora und Satzstellung in den Psalmen, Bonn 1960, § 36 (p. 249)
Silviu Tatu. The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Semitic Couplets: A Case Study in Systemic Functional Grammar with Applications on the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic Poetry (Eisenbrauns, 2008).
Philip Sumpter
http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/
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