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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbs in Hebrew poetry
  • Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 14:31:59 +1000

Hi Phil,

Additional references that I'm aware of regarding qatal-yiqtol in poetry:

Buth, Randall. 1984. “Hebrew Poetic Tenses and the Magnificat.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 21: 67-83.

Buth, Randall. 1986. “The Taxonomy and Function of Hebrew Tense-Shifting in the Psalms (qāṭal–yiqṭol–yiqṭol–qāṭal, Antithetical Grammatical Parallelism).” Selected Technical Articles Related to Translation 15: 26-32.

Tatu, Silviu. 2006. “The rhetorical interpretation of the yiqtol//qatal (qatal//yiqtol) verbal sequence in classical Hebrew poetry and its research history.” Transformation 23/1: 17-23.

Tatu, Silviu. 2007. “The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Couplets in Ugaritic Poetry: A Systemic Functional Grammar Investigation.” Pages 267-302 in “He Unforrowed his Brow and Laughed”: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Wyatt. Edited by Wilfred G. E. Watson. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 299. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Tatu, Silviu. 2008. The Qatal/Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) verbal sequence in Semitic couplets: A case study in systemic functional grammer with applications on the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic poetry. Gorgias Ugaritic Studies 3. New Jersey: Gorgias Press.


On verbal issues in BH non-narrative text in general, see also:

Buth, Randall. 1990. “Word Order Differences between Narrative and Non-Narrative Material in Biblical Hebrew.” Pages 9-16 in Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 16-24, 1989. Division D, Volume 1: The Hebrew Language, Jewish Languages. Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies.

Buth, Randall. 1992. “Topic and Focus in Hebrew Poetry: Psalm 51.” Pages 83-96 in Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre. Edited by Shin Ja J. Hwang and William Merrifield. Publications in Linguistics 107. Dallas: SIL.

Fariss, Sherry L. 2003. “Word Order in Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Arlington.

Gross, Walter. 2001. Doppelt besetztes Vorfeld: Syntaktische, pragmatische und übersetzungstechnische Studien zum althebräischen Verbalsatz. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 305. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Holmstedt, Robert D. 2005. “Word Order in the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 135-154 in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor of Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Lunn, Nicholas P. 2006. Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetic. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Milton Keynes: Paternoster.

Regards,
David Kummerow.





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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