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.