Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 24/05/2005 15:19, Ken Penner wrote:

> > Sorry, my mistake. I thought that Driver was writing in the 1930s. 
> >    
>
> I would guess you are thinking of a different "Driver", G. R. Driver wrote
> _Problems of the Hebrew Verbal System_ in 1936.
>
>  
That's the book I thought you were referring to. Sorry.

> > Did Driver use the word "aspect" as early as 1874?
> >    
>
> No, the earliest use of the word "aspect" I know of for Hebrew was Kennedy's
> 1879 translation of Ewald: "But the simplest distinction of time in an
> action is, that the speaker first of all merely separates between the two
> grand and opposite aspects under which every conceivable action may be
> regarded" (1). Where Kennedy has "aspects" Ewald (1870) had "unterscheide."
>
> It was Rodiger who imported Ewald's terms "imperfect" and "perfect" into his
> revision of Gesenius' grammar.
>  

Thank you.


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