Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Paul,
> 2) Mark Joseph, citing W&O'C, proposes an English pluperfect
> understanding of the construction.  You countered the idea of
> translating a wayyiqtol as a pluperfect by addressing Mark's
> examples, but you never say what to do in this case.  Your
> response kicks off a post by Dave Washburn, who points to this as
> another example of the weaknesses of the discourse analysis
> approach.  (This posting might well become infamous as "the party
> line" posting.) 

It was not my intention to single out discourse analysis in my 
"infamous" posting :-)  The "party line" I spoke of actually focused 
more on the Gesenius-Driver-etc. approach of days gone by 
regarding the WP.  My personal jury is still out on discourse 
analysis because I need to examine it more closely.  As I stated 
before, I have deliberately chosen to focus on the clause level, and 
syntax within the clause, but that doesn't mean that I cast any 
stones at discourse analysis.  I need to learn more about it, just as 
I suspect the discourse folks need to learn more about my 
generative approach, because I suspect there's a lot we can learn 
from each other.  If my post came across as a slam on discourse 
analysis, I apologize.  It certainly was not intended.


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.