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Alviero Niccacci--2Sam 12:10

From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
To: "Niccacci, Alviero" <sbfnet AT netvision.net.il>, Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Alviero Niccacci--2Sam 12:10
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:11:38 -0400

Dear Professor Niccacci,
Would you please explain the syntax of 2 Sam. 12:10. I have copied the
following text from my previous post.

40 x-yiqtol, simple future = Now the sword shall never depart from
your house,
41 x-qatal, reason= because you despised me,
42 wayyiqtol, narrative= and have taken the wife of Uriah

It appears to me that 41 and 42 function as protasis, with 40 being the
apodosis. Would you describe 42 as continuative wayyiqtol? 42 seems to
give the details of 41 in much the same way that x-qatals add detail to
wayyiqtols in hist. narrative.

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Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
http://earth.vol.com/~lmartin/

Alviero Niccacci--2Sam 12:10, Lee R. Martin, 04/27/1999