Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Vadim,


I do not want to hurt the feelings of anyone. But because of the terminology 
used and the approach to the subject, I see no reason to participate in the 
present discussion. If you want examples, please look at the Archives.  And 
why don`t you look at the discussion of YIQTOL in Joüon/Muraoka where 
examples can be found as well?

Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo

> That would be too generous. I will just read yiqtols as future tense where
> Rolf sees intricate past sense.
> I offered even more stringent approach. I asked Rolf publicly for the best
> cases he can bring out. And I shown that they are either:
> - straight future tense,
> - repeatedly encountered turns like ci-yiqtol and caasher-yiqtol (that
> suggests idiomatic meaning of etymologicallly future tense, often 
> paralleled
> in Russian and, to some extent, in English), or
> - emphatic speech such that is likely to contain deictic shifts.

SNIP

If Rolf, with his immense experience in fishing for dubious
> yiqtols, could bring just one such example, the discussion would be over.

SNIP

> Vadim Cherny