Biblical Hebrew Forum

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The proponents of Modern Hebrew have successfully revivified to a large 
extent the lexicon and morphologoy of Biblical Hebrew, but the syntax of MH 
is very much the same as Rabbinic (Mishnaic) Hebrew, which uses the Hebrew 
verb forms as tenses in the Indo-European sense (past, present future).  But 
certainly  Biblical Hebrew did not use these verbs to indicate tenses but 
aspects (perfective, imperfective).

In a message dated 5/2/01 1:55:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rosewalk AT concentric.net writes:

> On the fact that, since I first began to learn Hebrew both as a Biblical and
> spoken language (since kindergarten), which I am now fluent in, and which
> includes many adult years living in Israel, NOWHERE was "Ehyeh" ever used in
> anything but future tense.