Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Hi Vince,  
Can you name some sources for me which advocate the historical present for
historical narrative?  Thanx!

> look at all non-sequential forms: *they* tell you the form to be used as
> "backbone" which governs the entire passage. what forms do you get?
> yiqtol and verbless/participles (same thing in my book). conclusion:
> narrating in historical present tense.  ;-)

> descriptive benefits?
> (1) v7 not odd in any way: ken taxisennah, wattivkeh, wlo toxal.
> comment: wayyiqtol on yiqtol? why not????

sounds fine.  see Hopper, section 2.21, pp. 9-10(Tense-Aspect:between
semantics and Pragmatics, 1979)

> (2) v10 not adverbial necessarily: whi marat-nefe$, wattitpallel...
> comment: wayyiqtol on verbless? sure!
> (3) overall: don't necessarily have huge (!) parenthetical structures;
> several ways to skin this cat. freedom to explore semantics/pragmatics.
> (4) break the strangle-hold of wayyiqtol hypothesis ;-)
> 

In vv. 1-11, what signals the shifts between the plotline(single past
events) to accounts of repetitive or habitual procedure in the past(which
is suggested by v. 7 veken ya`aseh $anah b:$anah)?  How many shifts are
there?

Thanks and shalom,
Bryan


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