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  • From: furuli AT online.no
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:35:59 +0200


Dear Geroge,

By "preterite," do you mean "grqmmaticalized past tense," i.e. that the WAYYIQTOL is uncancellable past tense in any context, just as English "went" and "walked"? If so, is it possible to differentiate between "past tense" and "past reference," or are all verbs with past reference preterites? What about the 103 participles, 34 YIQTOLs and 217 QATALs with past reference in the Aramaic part of Daniel? Are all these preterites?


Best regrds

Rolf


Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo





Serves to prove the view that the waw consecutive verbs are not imperfects at all, but preterites (past tense) with a non-converse waw. The jussive is formed off the preterite, hence both forms are shorter than the imperfect.



Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Lecturer in Biblical Languages
Southern Cross College
Sydney, Australia


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