Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Galia Hatav <ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu>]

Dear Rolf,

Your findings about the WAYYIQTOLs with Cohortative are extremely
important. I agree with you that there is one element in the form which is
modal.  I would like to see a more systematic and detailed account for your
analysis. I have tried to find references for your work in our library, but
I could not find anything.  Could you refer me to articles you wrote and
where I can purchase your book?

Thanks,

Galia

Thank you
>Dear Galia,
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>The WAYYIQTOLs with Cohortative ending occurs in the following books (I
>list the *possible* occurrences in parantheses, and then the percentage of
>the possible occurrences):
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>Genesis: 2 (42) - 4,7%
>Numbers: 1 (3) - 33,3%
>Joshua: 1 (14) - 7,1%
>Judges: 4 (11) - 36%
>Samuel: 6 (25) -24%
>Ezekiel: 3 (54) - 5,5%
>Psalms: 7 (13) -53,8%
>Job: 4 (12) - 33,3%
>Eccl: 1 (1)    100%
>Daniel: 9 (19) - 47,3%
>Ezra: 16 (18) - 88,8%
>Neh: 28  (55) - 50,9%
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>53 (64,6%) of the examples occur in Daniel, Ezra and Nehemja. Because of
>the spread of the remaining 29 (35,4%), we cannot conclude that the
>phenomenon of WAYYIQTOL plus Cohortative is a late phenomenon. A fact
>speaking in the same direction, is that 93 (22%) of the possible ocurrences
>consists of the verb )MR- a verb whose WAYYIQTOL only takes Cohortative in
>Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemja (17) with the only other example in Judges 6:10.
>Another fact speaking against the phenomenon as late, is that although
>Chronicles has 7 possibilities, WAYYIQTOL with Cohortative does not occur
>there. Neither of the 16 possibilities in the books of Kings take
>Cohortative.
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>As a matter of fact, many YIQTOLs with modal meaning neither are apocopated
>nor take Cohortative, but many of them do. This shows that it was not
>extremely important to mark modality morphologically, but it could be a
>matter of taste, though in some instances it was necessary to convey the
>right meaning. And similarly with imperatives: some of them take
>cohortative but most don´t. For those who want to penetrate this subject,
>two important questions are: Why does the WAYYIQTOL of $M( in Dan 8:13 take
>Cohortative but not the same verb in 8:16? And further,why does )MR in Neh
>1:5; 2:3,5,7,17 not take cohortative while the same verb in 5:7,8; 6:11;
>13:9,11,17,19(2),21,22 take it?
>
>Because almost 20% of the examples of WAYYIQTOLs that can take Cohortative,
>take it, and a much higher percentage of WAYYIQTOLs that can be apocopated,
>are apocopated, I do not exclude the possibility that the WAYYIQTOLs simply
>*are* modal. This possibility should at least be thoroughly studied,
>because the Germanic way of viewing things is not the only viable
>linguistic model.
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>Regards
>
>Rolf
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>Rolf Furuli
>University of Oslo
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>>Dear Rolf,
>>
>>How many of those WAYYIQTOLS woth cohortative are from the books attributed
>>to the First Temple?  This is a crucial detail since one of the arguments
>>that the aspect system in the Second Temple had collapsed is that WAYYIQTOL
>>may come with cohortative.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Galia
>>
>>>Dear Henry,
>>>
>>>In my post of Feb. 20th. I made some comments regarding WAYYIQTOL with
>>>cohortative. My data search did not give wholly correct numbers, but now I
>>>have looked at each example and give the following revised numbers:
>>>
>>>WAYYIQTOLs with cohortative ending in all books: 661
>>>
>>>The following verbs cannot take cohortative,
>>>     lamed he verbs: 44
>>>     verbs with suffixes: 52
>>>The following must also be excluded from possible examples,
>>>     apocopated forms of WAYYIQTOLs 1 person: 68
>>>     WEYIQTOLs wrongly counted as WAYYIQTOLs:76
>>>
>>>This means that (44+52+68+76) = 240 examples must be substracted from the
>>>number of 661. The result is that 421 of the WAYYIQTOLs of the Tanach *can*
>>>take cohortative. I found that 82 of these had cohortative ending, and this
>>>means that 19.5% of the possible examples of WAYYIQTOL have cohortative
>>>ending.
>>>
>>>Of the 68 apocopated forms, 54 were lamed he verbs, and this means that 55%
>>>of the lamed he verbs that *can* be apocopated are apocopated.
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