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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Phil Sumpter" <philsumpter AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A jussive in Ps 24:5?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:54:36 -0400

There is no need to hear OF it, just to listen TO it. ישא = היא- שא and the rest is, as I have said, up to you, methinks.

Isaac Fried, Boson University

On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Phil Sumpter wrote:

I've never heard of a prefixed יִ before. I'll have to look into it.

But then what form would שא be? Imperative?

Phil.

From: Isaac Fried
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:58 PM
To: Phil Sumpter
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A jussive in Ps 24:5?

No, the היא is already there as the "prefix" יִ. Attached, הוּא and היא are interchangeable.

Isaac Fried, Boston University.

On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Phil Sumpter wrote:

Hi Isaac,

thank you for your response.

Just to clarify, you are suggesting that we ammend the text and add היא, right?

Adding the pronoun would certainly ease the syntax, but I think that kind of emendation ought to be a last resort. I also think you mean hu' rather than hî'', as the subject is masculine.

All the best

Phil.

From: Isaac Fried
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:40 AM
To: Phil Sumpter
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A jussive in Ps 24:5?


ישא = היא-שא
with the personal pronoun standing for the actor. The rest is up to you.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Phil Sumpter wrote:

I've been trying to figure out the syntax of the verb >yissa'< in Ps 24:5. All translations and commentaries that I am aware of see this verb as starting a new clause and translate it is "He will receive ... ." Andersen-Forbes, however, see it as the predicate of the entire of v. 4, rending: "One of clean hands ... will receive ... ." It was recently suggested to me at SBL that it is a jussive.

Does anyone have any views on this? I have posted a more detailed overview along with further questions that this raises for me on my blog at: http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/08/is- in-ps-245-jussive.html.

Thanks in advance,

Philip Sumpter

http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/
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