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  • From: "Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Prophetic Perfect?
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:44:37 -0400

>
> The perfective perfect notion was originally built on the
> view that QATAL was past tense and /or signalled completed
> acts. Thus, it contradicted fundamental grammatical thoughts
> to have hundreds of QATALs with simple future reference. So,
> in order to save the grammar
> - but without any data - the psychological explanation was
> invented that the action was completed in the mind of the
> prophet. Please ask your constructor if he or she has any
> *data* showing that the QATALs of Isaiah 9:1,5 are not just
> simple futures.
Dear Rolf,
What evidence could you possibly bring to show that
these are not just simple narrative pasts?
Liz Fried
A2






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