Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Paul wrote:
> Dave Washburn wrote [quoting Bryan]:
> 
> > > Reworded:  With Gen 42:8's vayaker the narrator is signalling the 
> > > reader,
> > > "Let's start again from back here," and he uses a form that suggests the
> > > middle of a story.
> >
> > I agree that this is what the narrator is doing, but I would submit
> > that he uses a form that is neutral and lends itself well to this kind
> > of jump-back.
> 
> Okay, Dave, let's play with your idea.  What do you propose exists in this 
> "neutral"
> form (WP or wayyiqtol) that results in its "lend[ing] itself well to this 
> kind of
> jump-back"?

I have already answered this, several times in fact.  But I have yet 
to see an answer to my question, which I am asking now for the 
third time: what is there in this form that makes sequence a 
*necessary* and *inherent* property of it, and why?

Dave Washburn
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