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Dear Dave,

This is a strange post because no named person is addressed.  Because 
an exchange between Vadim and myself was copied, it seems that I am 
the addressee. But then the post becomes even  more strange, because 
I quoted the words of the doctoral dissertation of Dr Cook, and said 
that I agreed. There was no claim that the question was finally 
settled. There are many valuable thoughts in the Archives which can 
be taken into account, but it is even better to study the text of the 
Tanakh itself.


Best regards

Rolf

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo



> I suggest you spend some serious time in the archives before making such a
> statement.  There have been beaucoup discussions of this very question and
> it's far from settled.  Don't try to treat it as though it's a done deal,
> because it most definitely isn't.
>
> On Sunday 16 May 2004 01:43, unikom AT paco.net wrote:
> >  Dear Rolf,
> >
> >  You can't be serious on that. Out of head, 90% of wa's reverse the tense.
> >  Those that don't represent probably the same percentage of the erroneous
> >  tenses as encountered in the verbs without wa. Wa's overwhelmingly do
> >  reverse the tense, wouldn't you agree with this?
> >
> >  >QATAL and WEQATAL: "In
> >
> >  conclusion, there is no evidence that qatal and weqatal are separate
> >  and independent conjugations or that they have different origins.
> >  I agree that there is no difference between the two forms - weqatal
> >  is a qatal with the conjunction WAW prefixed.<
> >
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >
> >  Vadim
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