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  • From: "Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Wayyiqtol/X + qatal (Paul)
  • Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:40:23 -0500



You wrote re Exo 16:6-7, 12-13 --
>
> Another question - how do you know that the use of qatal in
> (1) above is
> dictated by a desire to "go off-line" instead of by the fact
> that the verb is not clause initial for some other reason?
> If the verb is not clause initial, what other choice would a
> BH writer have than the qatal in this case?
>
> Another example:
> 1Kgs 15:13 (following a wayyiqtol in v. 12)
> wegam 'eth Maacah 'immo wayesireha...
>
> which the chronicler modified to:
> 2Chr 16:15 wegam Maacah 'em 'Asa hammelek hesirah...
>
> Did the chronicler want to demote this point to "offline" or
> did he just want to get rid of the redundant conjunction and
> therefore had to change the verb form as well (unless he was
> going to do more radical surgery and put the verb first)?




  • Wayyiqtol/X + qatal (Paul), John Ronning, 02/26/1999
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Wayyiqtol/X + qatal (Paul), Bryan Rocine, 02/27/1999

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