Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan-buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

dave washburn katav:
>Frank Stagg, writing in JBL, referred to
>it ast "the abused aorist" and pointed out that the aorist is exactly
>what its name implies: the undefined simple past (at least in the
>indicative). 

which is like saying it's not half a dozen, it's six. "Undefined simple
past" is a perfective par excellance. In fact, 'simple' is a nice synonym
for perfective. As for 'past' in the indicative. He's right, of course.
Which Porter rejects because it's not "exceptionless". I don't have a lot
of time for counting angels on pinheads. I think most intuitively recognize
that indicative aorist encodes past.

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