Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Sorry, Dave, I forgot...

There is a (statistically small, but) fairly large number of clause-initial
weqatals that appear to carry the main plotline of historical narrative. 
I.e., they are 'unconverted' and seemingly interchangable with wayyiqtol. 
See Longacre, "Weqatal Forms in BH Prose," BH and Discourse Linguistics,
ed. Bergen, Dallas: S.I.L., 1994.

Bryan 

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> From: Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Need a list
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 3:11 PM
> 
> Does anybody have already-compiled a list of clause-initial qatals 
> without waw?  If so, could I talk you into sharing it?  If not, does 
> anybody have software that can compile such a list quickly and 
> easily?  All I have so far is Logos, and I haven't found a way to do 
> this with it yet.


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