Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Moon-Ryul Jung" <moon AT computing.soongsil.ac.kr>]

Dear Alviero:

Great! The Hebrew verbforms are beginning to make sense. 
Let me ask some clarifying questions to your answers>

You wrote:
>at the beginning of a
> direct-speech narrative qatal and x-qatal are both mainline, and
> therefore basically interchangeable, since both are attested as
> direct-speech counterpart of narrative wayyiqtol.

1) Are there "offline constructions" in direct speech, which correspond to
"offline constructions" in narrative?

2) Are there no differences between x+qatal (without the initial "we" like
   in Gen 1:1) and we+x+qatal,
   and between x+yiqtol (without the initial "we") and we+x+yiqtol? 

3) It is quite interesting that both "we+x+qatal" and "we+x+yiqtol" are
    off-line constructions, but with different meanining; the former
    referring to the background state and the latter referring to the
     frequentive, habitual background. Great!
 
 Sincerely
 
 Moon
 
 Moon-Ryul Jung
 Asssistant Professor
 Dept of Computer Science
 Soongsil University,
 Seoul, KOrea