Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Hi John, you wrote:
> 
> Dear Bryan,
> 
> Thanks for your detailed response re. Gen 42:6-17.  I don't
> agree that I have presented a caricature of the position
> that wayyiqtol is inherently sequential - I'm just assuming
> that you mean what you say (like Peter does).  It looks to
> me like you make a good case that wayyiqtol is not
> inherently sequential, but then you want to call it such
> anyway, and I don't understand why.
> 

Well, our discussion has become a touch tedious, perhaps, because of just
this point.  We all seem to know how the form *works*, but we cannot agree
about what the inherent meaning is.  Anyhow, there are no doubt many
sequence-initial wayyiqtols.  Can a sequential form be sequence-initial? 
What do you think?  I have sketched my reason for thinking it may be.  And
I do believe we can establish rules for identifying when wayyiqtol is
sequence initial.

What do you think, Dave, is wayyiqtol a preterite?

Shalom,
Bryan


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