Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JoeWallack AT aol.com]

"It seems to me that this whole discussion regarding the so-called  
indefinite uses of the BH definite article has not appreciated the  
following references I provided earlier in the discussion,  viz.:

Ehrensvärd, Martin. 2000a. “Determination of the Noun in Biblical  
Hebrew.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 14:  301-314.
Ehrensvärd, Martin. 2000b. “Studies in the Syntax and the Dating of  
Biblical Hebrew.” PhD diss., University of Aarhus.
Müller, Augustin R.  1991. “Zu den Artikelfunktionen im Hebräischen.” 
Pages 313-329 in Text,  Methode, und Grammatik: Wolfgang Richter zum 65. 
Geburtstag. Edited by  Walter Gross, Hubert Irsigler, and Helmut 
Satzinger. St. Ottilien: EOS  Verlag.

These indeed are a good critique of, inter alia, Barr's  "'Determination' 
and the Definite Article in Biblical Hebrew."

As  Müller and Ehrensvärd convincingly demonstrate, the category of 
"indefinite  use of the definite article" is erroneous.

Regards,
David  Kummerow."
 
 
JW:
I'll take whatever I can get without a prescription. Translation = Can you  
please email these to _JoeWallack AT aol.com_ (mailto:JoeWallack AT aol.com)  
 
Right now I'm inclined to agree with the final conclusion above for nouns  
but accept the possibility that the contra position exists and just has not 
been 
 demonstrated to me yet or even that it has and I just don't/refuse to  
understand. 2,500 years later as I believe Karl Randolph has stated, it's  
difficult to do much more than look for likely meaning based on other good  
examples 
from the Jewish Bible.
 
 
 
Joseph Wallack




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