Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Joseph Justiss <jljustiss AT msn.com>]

Dear Friends
 
I know of a Hebrew Bible scholar who has tagged almost every clause in the 
TaNaK into a databse designed to analyze textgrammar. He agrees with Barr 
that the "authors" (defined as those responsible for the final canonical form 
of biblical books, those who "make" not "write" books) were not themselves 
native BH speakers and learned the language in much the same way you and I 
do. He says he can prove this by the mistakes they make in the grammar of the 
text. It is hard to argue with him since he can show you the undeniable 
statistics in the computer database-stored information. 

 

I bring this up for this reason. Suppose the examples given by Karl Randolf 
of weqatals which do not refer to events subsequent to the discourse are just 
such examples of the "misuse" of weQatal in the text. I'm curious to see if 
any of the list members would even entertain such a possibility.

 

Joseph Justiss 

                                          
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