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  • From: "Reinhard G.Lehmann" <lehmann AT mail.Uni-Mainz.de>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: a.c.smith AT juno.com
  • Subject: Re: tenses / times I Chronicles 13:6
  • Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:50:36 +0000


Andrew C Smith wrote:
>
> The NIV translation of I Chronicles 13:6 moves from the past to the
> present mid-way through the sentence. To what extent is this justified or
> justifiable?

I am not sure whether I understand your question right (I have no NIV
at hand in my office) - but maybe you mean *YHWH yosheb hakkerubim asher
niqra shem*. IMHO both (*YHWH yosheb hakkerubim* and *asher niqra shem*)
are attributes to *'elohim*, which is a little bit clearer in 2 Sam 6:2
in another order. Than present is not real present but generalizing
(extratemporalis), which is in English (and German) indeed represented
by present tense.

reinhard g.lehmann

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