Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Dear Rolf,

Thank you, and sorry if I misrepresented you. I think we need to avoid 
a priori assumptions in either direction. Your first paragraph is 
certainly a worthy aim. My contribution on Psalm 78 in fact 
demonstrated just the opposite of any "claim that a wayyiqtol or a 
qatal has a different meaning in poetry than in prose". Maybe the 
comparison needs to be between prose non-narrative and poetic 
non-narrative of otherwise similar genre, if we can find something 
like that. Presumably there is poetic exhortation as well as prose 
exhortation to be looked at. We can then compare the verb forms in the 
poetic exhortation with those described for prose by Niccacci, Rocine 
etc.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[3]: Tidbits from Ruth
Author:  furuli AT online.no at internet
Date:    02/05/1999 18:13


Peter Kirk wrote:

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Dear Peter,

I would like to clear up one misunderstanding: I am not saying that verb 
forms cannot be used differently in different genres composed at different 
times. To the contrary, an important side of my research is to find if this 
is the case, and if so, to which extent they are used differently.

What I reject, is the *a priori* view that verb forms are used differently 
in different genres composed at different times. This means that a claim 
that a wayyiqtol or a qatal has a different meaning in poetry than in prose 
should be demonstrated and not just presumed. So far I have not seen a 
single study which has given evidence in this direction.

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