Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

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> From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: BH, TMA matters, matt anstey
> Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:57 AM
> 
> > From: "Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>
> > To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Subject: RE: b-hebrew digest: December 03, 1998
> 
> > Thanks for your comments about learning BH. They have been most
helpful. I
> > am still interested in that issue, but I have thought of another one
that
> > bothers me a lot as well.
> [big snip]
> 
> > 3) I can understand leaving out Late BH, but can we safely omit poetry?
> 
> short answer, IMHO: nope! there is a false dichotomy there. it arises
> mostly from the dominence of discourse types who can't get their
> generalizations to work elsewhere. not enough wayyiqtols, I guess.
> Niccacci for example just stipulates that there are two grammars. <sigh>
> 

amen, Vince.  what are we supposed to imagine, that BH poetry is not BH? 
huh!  but d.a. is helpful yet again.  like historical narrative dominates
in prose, expository and hortatory dominate in poetry.  hortatory is not
the problem.  it's expository that is not well understood.  esentially BH
poetry is tweo types of case-building: hortatory and arguementative.

Shalom,
Bryan

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