Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

> Brian writes <<I am working on an article concerning the light that Ugaritic
> shines on
> Biblical Hebrew.>>
> 
> This is the approach Dahood took in his three volume commentary on the
> psalms.  Some of his "discoveries" were very insightful, others interesting,
> and many fanciful, but he certainly thought he found an extensive number of
> them.

Agreed.  His approach was one of those that people either love or 
hate, there doesn't seem to be any in-between.  One major effect it 
had was to make people think, and that's a Very Good Thing (TM).


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated."  C. S. Lewis