Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

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From:   yochanan bitan, 113313,266
TO:     INTERNET:peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG, INTERNET:peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
DATE:   4/23/99 16:15

RE:     Copy of: Re[2]: More on wayyiqtol

> Well, thank you for answering Randall's and other criticisms of my 
> version of the historic present hypothesis. But then I am not sure 
> that they or I will be convinced by this argument or at least this 
> presentation of it.

you are correct, that does not answer it. 
for one, methodologically, it is using the "less clear" to explain the
"clear". [e.g. ugaritic epic poetry, a different language, should yield
lots of puzzling examples, and it does, which is only different in quantity
from our own psalms, though with even less context.]
for two, lam yaktub is a delightful fossil in arabic, and we have it in a
living language tradition.

braxot
randall buth