Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

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


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


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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..."
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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