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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: lationship between b-nouns and clauses
  • Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:14:52 +0100


>Ian,
>the following examples show that BYOM can be qualified by two COORDINATED
>clauses.
>
>> Isa 30:26b
>> bywm xb$ yhwh 't-$br `mw
>> wmxc mktw yrp'
>>
>Here we have BYOM+INF+X W+X+IQTOL. I was talking about the pattern
>BYOM+INF+X WQATAL (or WAYYQTOL) + X.
>But again, your examples above are better for the argument that BERESHIT
>in Gen 1.1 could have been qualified by more than one clauses, than
>the other examples you cited whose pattern is BYOM+INF+X WAYYQTOL + X.
>
>> Obadiah 11
>> bywm `md:k mngd
>> bywm $bwt zrym xyl:w
>> wnkrym b'w $`r:w
>> w`l-yrw$lm ydw gwrl
>> gm-'th k'xd mhm
>
>
>Here the pattern is BYOM + INF + X W+X+QATAL W+X+QATAL. The three clauses
>following BYOM are coordinated clauses and thus all of them qualify BYOM.

Moon,

As the writer of Jeremiah showed with br'$yt in 26:1 and 49:34,
the time localiser can be initial (26:1) or postponed (49:34)
while saying basically the same thing. Two out of the four
examples of br'$yt in Jeremiah are initial, the first two. The
third refers to the same reign as the other two.

What necessary difference do you see between

wayyiqtol b-noun ()

and

b-noun () wayyiqtol

or could they, also, be the same thing?

Could literary purposes allow such a thing? For example, at the
start of a book one usually puts something which explains what
the book is about at the beginning. Again, if the time apparatus
is placed initially it provides a contextualisation for the
first action and it doesn't interrupt the structure of the
formalised creation narrative, in which each day starts with God
saying something and ends with "and there was evening and there
was morning, day x". Such a structure would be disturbed by the
insertion of a general time localizer, especially if it is as
large as I would have it. Wouldn't it be better outside the
narrative itself and at the beginning?

(Incidentally, I have just come across an edition of Genesis with
Hebrew text and commentaries which starts somewhat as I have
advocated, "At the beginning of God's creating..." I'll get the
bibliographical data.)


Ian






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