Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Trevor M Peterson <spedrson AT juno.com>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:43:19 -0500 (EST) Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG writes:
>
>Could the following be another possibility for 1 Sam 1:12: here we 
>have a flashback situation, which would require a pluperfect in 
>English etc: "Meanwhile, as she was praying so much to the Lord, Eli 
>had been observing her". Normally such a flashback would use w-X 
>qatal; but the problem is that this is a one word clause, there is no 
>X to be fronted, and so we just find weqatal. But is such a 
>construction found elsewhere for "Meanwhile back at the ranch..." type 
>
>situations?

I don't know about frequency, but it does sound plausible.  I wonder,
though, if it were a problem to front an X-element, whether the author
would have hesitated to use the independent pronoun.  It would certainly
have been an available option.

Trevor Peterson
Bible/Theology Department
Washington Bible College
Lanham, MD

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