Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>]

Dear Alviero,

You wrote:

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>3) Josh. 16:1-3 is a good example of a text conveying,
first, historical information with wayyiqtol, then
description (of the borders, in this case) with a
participial clause and with weqatal, as expected. Again in
16:4-5 historical information is given with wayyiqtol, and
description with weqatal in 16:6-7, then with x-yiqtol
(which if the offline construction relative to weqatal) and
again weqatal in 16:8a, then nonverbal clause in 16:8b-9.
The welo'+qatal in 16:10 is a negative wayyiqtol (not a
x-qatal); it is coordinated to 16:4: "They inherited ... --
(16:10) But they did not dispossess the Canaanites...".
A good text indeed. One can learn from it.
>

Thanks for your analysis.  Do you consider the "negative
wayyiqtol" in this and other texts to be mainline or
off-the-line?

Thanks,
Bryan


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