Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

Could you toss out a couple of examples to illustrate this thought?

On 6 Feb 2010 at 13:26, Joseph Justiss wrote:

> 
> 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.

Dave Washburn

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