Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

de Regt is no "house painter" (to use your words). You could say his 
critique is "from the inside", as one "artist" to another.

Some of his works (in English) include:

"Domains and Subdomains in Biblical Hebrew Discourse." Pages 147-161 in 
Narrative and Comment: Contributions to Discourse Grammar and Biblical 
Hebrew, Presented to Wolfgang Schneider on the Occasion of His Retirement as 
a Lecturer of Biblical Hebrew at the Theologische Hochschule in Wuppertal. 
Edited by Eep Talstra. Societas Hebraica Amstelodamensis. Kampen: Kok 
Pharos, 1995.

"Aspects of the Syntax and Rhetoric of Participant Reference in Exodus." 
Pages 215-522 in Studies in the Book of Exodus: 
Redaction---Reception---Interpretation. Edited by Marc Vervenne. Bibliotheca 
Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 126. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 
1996.

"Domains of Biblical Hebrew Discourse as a Translation Problem." Journal of 
Translation and Textlinguistics 8 (1996): 50-72.

"Person Shift in Prophetic Texts: Its Function and its Rendering in Ancient 
and Modern Translations." Pages 214-231 in The Elusive Prophet: The Prophet 
as Historical Person, Literary Character and Anonymous Artist. Edited by 
Johannes C. de Moor. Oudtestamentische Studiën 45. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

A Parametric Model for Syntactic Studies of a Textual Corpus, Demonstrated 
on the Hebrew of Deuteronomy 1-30. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 24. Assen: 
Van Gorcum, 1988.

"Word Order in Different Clause Types in Deuteronomy 1-30." Pages 152-172 in 
Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Syntax: Presented to Professor J. Hoftijzer on 
the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by K. Jongeling, H. J. 
Murre-van den Berg, and L. van Rompay. Leiden: Brill, 1991.

"Participant Reference in Some Biblical Hebrew Texts." Jaabericht "Ex 
Oriente Lux" 32 (1991-92): 150-172.

"Functions and Implications of Rhetorical Questions in the Book of Job." 
Pages 361-373 in Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics. Edited by Robert 
D. Bergen. Dallas: SIL, 1994.

"Discourse Implications of Rhetorical Questions in Job, Deuteronomy and the 
Minor Prophets." Pages 51-78 in Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies 
in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by L. J. de Regt, J. de Waard, and J. P. 
Fokkelman. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1996.

"The Order of Participants in Compound Clausal Elements in the Pentateuch 
and Earlier Prophets: Syntax, Convention or Rhetoric?" Pages 79-100 in 
Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by 
L. J. de Regt, J. de Waard, and J. P. Fokkelman. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1996.

"Macrosyntactic Functions of Nominal Clauses Referring to Participants." 
Pages 273-296 in The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic 
Approaches. Edited by Cynthia L. Miller. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West 
Semitic 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999.

Participants in Old Testament Texts and the Translator: Reference Devices 
and their Rhetorical Impact. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 39. Assen: Van 
Gorcum, 1999.

In a separate email I'll attach the desired article.

David Kummerow.


> On 7/5/05 5:43 PM, "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > de Regt's paper has actually been published:
> >
> > de Regt, L?nart. "Hebrew Syntactical Inversions and their Literary
> > Equivalence in Robert Alter's Translation of Genesis." The Bible 
> Translator
> > 54 (2003): 111-121.
>
> I am a little bit curios about this. Why would L. de Regt write a critique
> of Alter's translation of Genesis? Kind of like a house painter writing a
> critique of Mark Rothko. Does anyone have the article in electronic form?
> Would be nice to see it.
>
>
> Clay Bartholomew