Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 16/09/2005 17:47, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> > I think you two need to use some terminology which distinguishes
> > different verb forms or paradigms from the language of "tense".
> >    
>
> I offered my definition recently:
>
> Tense describes the reference time from narrator's point of view.
>
> That is to say, future tense must refer to the future from the narrator's
> deictic centre, and past tense likewise.
>
> Now, narrator's deictic centre might be shifted, and so future tense
> sometimes refers to the past events - from the point of view of the reader
> or of narrator's contemporaries. This is still future tense.
>
> Does that seem reasonable?
>
>  
Reasonable, but this definition of "future tense" does not apply to the 
YIQTOL form in biblical Hebrew. This has already been demonstrated in 
numerous examples.

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