Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Often? A few weeks ago I asked on this list for examples of this and 
from the list I received I found just one clear example, and in that 
case the following verb was WAYYIQTOL (which cannot be separated from 
its WAW) rather than WE-X QATAL. Can you send me more? I exclude cases 
like WAYHIY BE-... WE-... where there is a verb with the temporal 
indicator - the case under discussion is a hanging prepositional phrase 
with no verb and separated from the following clause by WE-.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: SV: Gilgamesh and Genesis 1:1
Author:  <lmartin AT vol.com> at Internet 
Date:    17/01/2000 14:44


Dear Peter,
Temporal indicators often are followed by clause with waw. 
Lee R. Martin

Peter Kirk wrote:

> I don't know if NPL was on this list at the time, but it's not many
> months since we had an exhaustive discussion of the syntax of Genesis 
> 1:1. My conclusion was that Lee Martin's interpretation of this verse 
> cannot be syntactically correct, as this would leave it as a hanging 
> prepositional phrase linked to nothing else, for verse 2 (starting
> with WAW) is clearly a new sentence. So I agree with NPL that the 
> literal meaning of BERE'SHIT is "at a beginning" with no construct 
> chain. But this cannot mean "one of many beginnings" but in this
> context can only mean "in the beginning" in an absolute sense. 
>
> Peter Kirk
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> Subject: Re: SV: Gilgamesh
> Author:  <lmartin AT vol.com> at Internet 
> Date:    17/01/2000 11:24

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