Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Shalom Al,

I am a touch confused.  Your last sentence reads "difference," but
Randall's reads "equivalency."  I think you mean that it is easy to read
through the weak notion that there is any difference between yiqtol and
weqatal(in agreement with Randall), but I'm not sure.  Thanks

Bryan

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> From: Silberman, Alfred <alfred.silberman AT lmco.com>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: RE: ex 26 + 36.8ff, (36.29)
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 9:16 AM
> 
> 
> 
>       randall buth  [SMTP:ButhFam AT compuserve.com] wrote:
> 
>       > The broad equivalency of veqatal and yiqtol in its "verbal color"
> is, and
>       > always has been, very clear to readers of biblical hebrew. 
> 
>       After all the back and forth comments on this subject for the last
> several years I found this comment very amusing. For those of us who are
> immersed in Torah Study as a lifestyle and not as an academic subject
this
> statement was always obvious to me.
> 
>       For over 40 years I have been studying and reading Tanakh, Talmud
> and the Midrashim with commentaries before joining this list. I was not
even
> aware of a difference until I started reading about it on this list. I
can
> assure everyone on this list that for the thousands of people who are
> engaged in Torah Study on a 24 hour per day basis this difference is
totally
> transparent.
> 
>       Regards,
>       Al


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