Biblical Hebrew Forum

[mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>]

In response to Dave Washburn's "odd question"

>Not sure if I should even ask this...has anybody ever heard of a 
>theory that Hebrew has no verbs at all?

Dr. Jim West wrote:

>never heard tell of such.  if its true what we would have would be a bunch
>of grunting gesticulating children pointing at things and saying "food",
>"bunny", "toy" and thats about it.
>
>Who propounds such a genuinely stupid idea dave?

Just a guess, but might it not be the same gang who think the entire 
Hebrew Bible is a Hasmonean political tract, written in the second half 
of the 2nd century BC? The relation between the two groups might seem 
distant at first glance, but the two theories are joined together by the 
fact that both are, and I quote, "genuinely stupid."

Mark Joseph

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