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  • From: "Paul Zellmer" <zellmer AT digitelone.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew, list" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Verbforms in Is 51
  • Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:07:47 +0800


My drafters came to me yesterday with unspecified comments about
"unusual" verbforms in Isaiah 51. We were in the middle of something
else, so we did not get a chance to discuss it at the time. (I'm still
not sure why these questions did not come up earlier in their work.)
But, in looking briefly at the chapter, I think I see their questions.
Take, for example, verse 51:2.

HAB.IY+UW )EL-)AB:RFHFM )A:BIYKEM W:)EL-&FRFH T.:XOWLEL:KEM K.IY-)EXFD
Q:RF)TIYW WA)A:BFK:"HUW W:)AR:B."HUW

The overall passage is hortatory, so the imperative verb is to be
expected. Also, considering the recent investigations here on the list
led basically by Peter into relative time references, the qatal in a
relative clause [K.IY-)EXFD Q:RF)TIYW] and the wayyiqtol [WA)A:BFK:"HUW]
are not surprising. However, what part of the baggage of meaning that
yiqtols carry is being brought out in the X-yiqtol [W:)EL-&FRFH
T.:XOWLEL:KEM] and the weyiqtol [W:)AR:B."HUW]?

I trust that you realize that this is an honest inquiry. I am seeking
an understanding of what is being brought out in this passage. I am not
proposing this as a thesis for debate to promote a personal agenda.
However, I invite the opinions of all sides of the previous discussions
as long as they can give me some sort of reason for the forms that
Isaiah chose here.

Paul

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Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran
Ibanag Translation Project
Cabagan, Isabela, Rep. of Philippines

zellmer AT digitelone.com






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