Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Galia Hatav <ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu>]

Bryan wrote:
>Paul asked re Exo 16:13:
>> Bryan,
>>
>> Are you accepting John's statement as quoted below?
>>
>> John Ronning wrote:
>>
>> > On the other hand, I think it's still noteworthy that the timeline is
>advanced from
>> > evening to morning without any help from wayyiqtol, and it still looks
>to me that
>> > ubabboqer . . .  is just as "mainline" as the wayehi clauses.
>
>That narrative time has moved forward?  yes.  That the X-qatal is "just as
>mainline"?  no.  It is uboqer that moves the time forward, not the verb
>form.  By using the X-qatal construction the writer makes clear that the
>dew had fallen by morning.  It is indeed off-the-line, giving the state of
>things prior to resuming the mainline of action.  To make the same
>chronology part of the mainline we would need something like vayipol
>hatal...vayehi boqer... "And the dew fell...and morning came..."

        I agree.

Galia
>
>hth,
>Bryan
>
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