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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: "standard hebrew syntax is verb-initial"
  • Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:33:20 -0400


Reading this as biblical Hebrew rather than a different later dialect,
I would say that the meaning "[..] Hyrcanus. [..] rebelled [..]" is
unlikely as there would normally be a WE- or other conjunction
separating the clauses. Also "[..] Hyrcanus rebelled [..]" is unlikely
as there is no WE- before "Hyrcanus", and I can't think of another
conjunction ending with B. I would go for something like "the [..] of
Hyrcanus had rebelled [..]", taking the word ending with B as a
construct state noun before "Hyrcanus" and the QATAL verb as a
flashback corresponding to the English perfect (here, guessing at a
context in a past narrative, past perfect).

But I would also suggest that such a small fragment without a context
is all but meaningless. Michael Wise's translation is justified as a
word-for-word gloss which is about the best that makes sense.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: "standard hebrew syntax is verb-initial"
Author: mc2499 AT mclink.it at internet
Date: 04/08/1999 08:25


Vince recently said what is in the subject line in a post. I have a
question for the brave. In Mish(C), 4Q322 Frag 2, we find this line (6) of
the fragment -- so isolated that no context is to be hoped for:

]B HRQNWS MRD [

In three separate publications, Michael Wise has translated this as

[..] Hyrcanus rebelled [..]

Can such a translation be justified in any way? Or should it necessarily be

[..] Hyrcanus. [..] rebelled [..]
<subj>


Thanks for any thoughts,


Ian


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