Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: "test/problem case" for wayyiqtol theories

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: "test/problem case" for wayyiqtol theories
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:14:16 -0400


How about: "He sent his brothers away, and they set off, and he called
out after them, '...'"? Surely the words and context are just asking
for that type of explanation - so no problem with sequential
wayyiqtol.

Peter Kirk


______________________________ Reply Separator
_________________________________
Subject: "test/problem case" for wayyiqtol theories
Author: dukerk AT appstate.edu at internet
Date: 19/04/1999 16:00


<snip>

One problematic text that I just noticed is Gen 45:24.
wayyiqtol: wayeshallach
wayyiqtol: wayyeleku
wayyiqtol: wayyomer

If we see the three wayyiqtols as narrative wayyiqtols reporting a
sequence of EVENTS, each with a new Reference time (Hatav), and each
representing the simple past (English: "And he sent away his brothers,
and they went, and he said to them..."), then a logical problem is
created. The last wayyiqtol does not make sense, if it refers to an
EVENT, which is the third in a sequence. We must see it as a past
perfect: "he had said to them..."
<snip>

So, how would the models of understanding wayyiqtol account for and
explain the sequence in Gen 45:24 and which model seems the most
successful?

Thanks!
Rodney





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page