Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Phil,

Additional references that I'm aware of regarding qatal-yiqtol in poetry:

Buth, Randall. 1984. “Hebrew Poetic Tenses and the Magnificat.” Journal 
for the Study of the New Testament 21: 67-83.

Buth, Randall. 1986. “The Taxonomy and Function of Hebrew Tense-Shifting 
in the Psalms (qāṭal–yiqṭol–yiqṭol–qāṭal, Antithetical Grammatical 
Parallelism).” Selected Technical Articles Related to Translation 15: 26-32.

Tatu, Silviu. 2006. “The rhetorical interpretation of the yiqtol//qatal 
(qatal//yiqtol) verbal sequence in classical Hebrew poetry and its 
research history.” Transformation 23/1: 17-23.

Tatu, Silviu. 2007. “The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence 
in Couplets in Ugaritic Poetry: A Systemic Functional Grammar 
Investigation.” Pages 267-302 in “He Unforrowed his Brow and Laughed”: 
Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Wyatt. Edited by Wilfred G. E. 
Watson. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 299. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Tatu, Silviu. 2008. The Qatal/Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) verbal sequence in 
Semitic couplets: A case study in systemic functional grammer with 
applications on the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic poetry. Gorgias Ugaritic 
Studies 3. New Jersey: Gorgias Press.


On verbal issues in BH non-narrative text in general, see also:

Buth, Randall. 1990. “Word Order Differences between Narrative and 
Non-Narrative Material in Biblical Hebrew.” Pages 9-16 in Proceedings of 
the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 16-24, 
1989. Division D, Volume 1: The Hebrew Language, Jewish Languages. 
Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies.

Buth, Randall. 1992. “Topic and Focus in Hebrew Poetry: Psalm 51.” Pages 
83-96 in Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre. Edited by 
Shin Ja J. Hwang and William Merrifield. Publications in Linguistics 
107. Dallas: SIL.

Fariss, Sherry L. 2003. “Word Order in Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” PhD 
diss., University of Texas at Arlington.

Gross, Walter. 2001. Doppelt besetztes Vorfeld: Syntaktische, 
pragmatische und übersetzungstechnische Studien zum althebräischen 
Verbalsatz. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche 
Wissenschaft 305. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Holmstedt, Robert D. 2005. “Word Order in the Book of Proverbs.” Pages 
135-154 in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to 
Honor of Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. 
Edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary. 
Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Lunn, Nicholas P. 2006. Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: 
Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetic. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. 
Milton Keynes: Paternoster.

Regards,
David Kummerow.



> I recently posted a request for tips on resources for this topic to the 
> Biblical Studies List and The Biblicalist, particularly in respect to 
> qatal/yiqtol sequences. I've collected suggestions below and would be 
> grateful for any further tips, as well as any critical comments on the 
> theories proposed (Niccacci, for example, seems to part company with Berlin 
> and Tatu by treating qatal/yiqtol sequences in parallelism as also having 
> some kind of temporal dimension). [p.s. I've posted this too my blog, in case 
> you want to update it there: 
> http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/bibliography-for-verb-system-in.html]
>
> Adele Berlin, "Grammatical Aspects of Biblical Parallelism," in Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979), 17-43. 
>
> Peter C. Craigie, "Excursus II: The Translation of Tenses in Hebrew Poetry," in 
> vol. 19, Word Biblical Commentary (2nd ed.; Word Biblical Commentary Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Reference & Electronic, 2004), 110-113. 
>
> Alviero Niccacci. "Poetic Syntax and Interpretation of Malachi." Liber Annuus 51 (2001): 55-107. 
>
> _____."The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in Poetry" in Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives (Eisenbrauns, 2006). 
>
> Diethelm Michel, Tempora und Satzstellung in den Psalmen, Bonn 1960, § 36 (p. 249) 
>
> Silviu Tatu. The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Semitic 
> Couplets: A Case Study in Systemic Functional Grammar with Applications on 
> the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic Poetry (Eisenbrauns, 2008).
>
> Philip Sumpter
>
> http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/