Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Prof Niccatti,
I enjoyed your analysis of Job 1.

Here I quoted part of your analysis:
[Niccatti]
10 wayyiqtol *narrative* among antecedent constructions = it happened
once

11 ki+qatal, protasis
12-13 wayyiqtol, apodosis + continuation wayyiqtol = ... and sanctified
them.
14 weqatal, habitual--shift to description = He would rise
18 weqatal, habitual--circumstantial to the preceding = because they
used to 'bless' God (it expresses a possibility)

[Moon] 
Several "official" translations seem to interpret the whole of 
Job 1:5 as habitual. But your analysis seems to treat line 10-12 (above)
as a concrete one-time happening.  Is this interpretation of your
analysis correct?

If so, could you explain why ?

Respectfully,
Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea

Let me translate it as follows:

It came to pass that when