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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[4]: Jer 15:6-9 - actually 6:1-6
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:19:13 -0400


Let me now reply re Jer 6:1-6. See interleaved comments.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[3]: Jer 15:6-9
Author: <furuli AT online.no> at Internet
Date: 19/09/1999 01:48


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"Jeremiah, chapter 6 may give some parallel thoughts:

v1: The RT of the QATAL must come after C (=future).
PK: No, the point is that the disaster has already come become near or
visible, the reason to flee has already become apparent. Note the
perfect in LXX.

v2: The RT of the QATAL must come after C (=future).
PK: This depends on the interpretation of this verse. NRSV reads "I
have likened daughter Zion to the loveliest pasture." This seems odd
in the context, but can DMH Qal really mean "destroy", and can its
qatal really be future?

v3: The RT of the YIQTOL must come after C, and this demands that the
same is true with the two QATALs.
PK: I wonder if the last two clauses of v.3 should be taken with the
first three of v.4 as set of four lines. They are rather parallel in
structure. I wonder if these two QATALs (clause initial, unusually)
should be emended (pointing only) to imperatives. Yes, this is just
the emendation I have complained about you making in Jer 27:18. But if
you allow it in one place, you can't refuse it in another.
Alternatively, one might point out that logically the attackers may
already have pitched their camp before C and be preparing for an
attack after C, i.e. the second half of the verse is a flashback.

v4: The RT of the WEYIQTOL(which has modal force) must come after C, and
the QATAL and the YIQTOL covers exactly the same time period: RT either
comes after C in both or coincides with C in both.
PK: This verse can hardly cover one time period as noon and evening are
incompatible! NRSV makes the second part of the verse the response of the
defenders, from different speakers with a different time perspective. In
any case I would take PFNFH as perfect "the day has changed, noon has
passed" and YINNF+UW as present "the shadows are lengthening".

v5: The RT of both WEYIQTOLs comes after C.
PK: Agreed.

v6: The RT must come after C in the second QATAL.
PK: This depends on the rather slippery semantics of PQD. Its basic
meaning seems to be something like "remember, pay attention". The
point of this hophal (unique in this sense) is perhaps that YHWH has
already paid attention to Jerusalem and prepared his punishment
against it.

There is no doubt that the setting is future, something which is shown by
the 6 imperatives, the two YIQTOLs and the two WEYIQTOLs. The use of 5
QATALs with future meaning in-between these other verbs is a strong
argument in favour of QATAL being used with a true future meaning. So
again, why cannot all the verbs in 15:6-7 have future meaning?"

PK: I do not accept that any of these five QATALs necessarily have
future meaning. The meaning of a verb is a much more subtle concept
than the time setting of the context in which it is placed. You used
to insist just this when you (at great length and detail) rejected the
argument that the meaning of WAYYIQTOL is past and sequential because
in many passages it occurs in a past and sequential context. Have you
shifted your position on that one? Or does "meaning" have a different
meaning here and in your previous arguments? OK, I assume you are not
claiming that future is an uncancellable component of the meaning of
QATAL. But I really think you should take more care with your
terminology.

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