Biblical Hebrew Forum

["s.a.breyer" <s.a.breyer AT gmail.com>]

Rolf:

My faith in the admirable clarity and rigor of your analysis is
profoundly shaken by this:

> It is a fundamental linguistic truth that verbs used in narratives
have past reference. 

On what basis do you make this assertion? It seems to me neither
self-evident nor borne out by linguistic fact, teste folktale and joke
on the one hand, and the practice of many eminent writers of fiction on
the other.

Stoney Breyer
Writer / Touchwood Creative