Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 11/09/2005 18:35, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
>
> -         If Ex3:14 contains the name, it could only be "I will be that I will be," a 
> theologically odd notion that God is not currently present. The translation "I am that I 
> am" hinges on the wrong theory that Hebrew lacks tenses. Even in that theory, reading 
> grammatical future tense as present tense is extremely unusual.
>  

Indeed it would be unusual to read anything as future tense if Hebrew 
has no tenses! But you misunderstand the theory. On that theory the 
YIQTOL form used here is not in any sense a future tense, but a timeless 
continuous verb form.

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Peter Kirk
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