Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Joseph Justiss <jljustiss AT msn.com>]

To everyone who has responded to this issue which I raised I gratefully offer 
my thanks. Your suggestions have been very interesting and thought provoking. 
I now ask this. With all the disagreement and lack of consensus regarding the 
verbal system in BH, doesn't it at least force us to make a serious listen to 
the Richter's, Schneider's, and Taltra's who insist that the closest thing we 
can get to a living informant of these dead languages is the data gleaned 
from analysing the frequency and distribution of these verbal forms in the 
texts and proceed from form to function letting the data speak for itself?

 

Thanks

Joe Justiss

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