Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>]

Zuber deals with counterfactuals in Excursus 3 (pages 111-118), in which he
lists 56 with x-suff and 6 with x-pref. I didn't take the time to read the
German carefully, but it seems he gets away without solving the problem
because Greek also uses indicative forms to express counterfactuals.

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
http://s91279732.onlinehome.us

> In the conclusion to her book, Hatav acknowledges that
> cases like these are problematic, but she doesn't
> attempt to deal with them.  Instead, she simply lists
> them as candidates for future research.  I am not
> aware of how Zuber would respond, but I would like to
> know if Ken or anyone else has come across one.