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  • From: "Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: (off-list)Gen 4:1
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:37:06 -0500


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hi Randy,

Gen 3:24 reads (I'm labelling clauses with letters):

a. "And he drove out (wayyiqtol) the man,
b. and he placed (wayyiqtol) to the east of the Garden of Eden..."

Consider the writer's options for his next clauses (Gen 4:1):

option (c1 and d)
vayhi beda`at ha'adam 'et xavah 'ishto vatahar

option (c2 and d)
vayeda` ha'adam 'et xavah 'ishto vatahar

option (c3 and d) the actual text:
veha'adam yada` 'et xavah 'ihsto vatahar

Of course, our knowledge of the world (and the birds and the bees in
particular ;-) ) tells us
the events of 4:1 are in sequence, but do the linguistic options I list
above for describing the events denote any recognizable difference in how
they temporally relate the clauses in series a-d? Or are they merely
equivalents? Do you think I have a naive and/or sort of hyper-sensitivity
to syntax?

Shalom,
Bryan





  • (off-list)Gen 4:1, Bryan Rocine, 02/03/1999

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