Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Karl,

I gave you the URLs.  I thought you copied them.  They are not hard to find.
If you really want to learn, you will find them.

The only time I remember you going to a library is one case which dealt with
Capernaum.  You went only after I looked up your town, looked up the article,
and found you had access to it in your "town" which is in fact not a
very little
town and even has a university.  Even though I had no access, you did not
offer to send me the article, or even summarize the arguments of the author
but rather went on to say that you felt the author's views were not 
convincing.

Regarding Prov 1:19, I wasn't on list when you described it a while back --
actually in July 2004:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2004-July/019680.html

Your arguments there are not very convincing, and again, at best you show
that the Masoretic reading is ambiguous, and are inconsistent with your
preconceived notion of what the Biblical grammar should be like, rather than
learning the grammar from the text.

In Isaiah 30:14, you offered a possible interpretation:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2007-October/034176.html

Again, it is not proof that the Masoretic points are wrong.  You are simply
suggesting an alternate reading:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2007-October/034215.html

I have no idea how you read "ywcrym ktwt" as "used in the making of
forged objects."  Even unpointed and even allowing for the ambiguity
without vocalization, this is not Hebrew.

> Look at your statement a couple of paragraphs above, namely that without
> points that the text is sometimes ambiguous. What was the complete context
> of that quote? I read the short quote as an imperative statement.
> Morphologically that is a possible reading. And when a statement is
> imperative, one expects that the verb contained in that statement to be
> imperative as well, even in Biblical Hebrew.

No, in this case nslwx is unambiguously infinitive.  There is no way to read 
it
as imperative.

Yitzhak Sapir