Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>]

Dear Joseph,

Please show the data. Also how would this be interact with the position of 
Rolf
Furuli?

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Justiss" <jljustiss AT msn.com>
To: "biblical hebrew list" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:36 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] BH verbal system



Dear List Members

I want to invite your evaluation of the BH verbal system as proposed by 
Wolfgang
Schneider and summarized below by John Sailhamer in his class lecture notes.

"In the Hebrew verb system, tense is used to signal the orientation of the
speaker to the listener...In Hebrew the choice of tense depends on whether the
action is part of a conversation or part of a narration....In Hebrew there are
two sets of tense systems: a primary tense and a secondary tense. The primary
tense is used to express the main action of a passage in the Hebrew Bible. The
primary tense has only two forms.
     The secondary tense has only one form. It is used to express actions 
which
lie in the background of those actions expressed in the primary tenses. In the
Hebrew Bible, these two tense systems have merged to form one complete system 
of
tenses."

He then identifies the primary tense for narrative as the wayyiqtol and the
primary tense for discourse as the yiqtol. The qatal is secondary in both
narrative and discourse. I can provide more details if anyone is interested, 
or
even thinks this is a valid approach to the verb. It certainly is radically
different from time and aspect models. It seeks to ask not "What type of 
action
does a verb represent?", but rather What type of communication does the verb
represent?".

Your thoughts?
Joseph Justiss
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