Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

Hi Karl.

You had written: "... that which is stated later is connected to what was 
stated earlier." This simply sounds to me like saying the later clause is 
somehow connected to the earlier clause. That's true. I agree. But I would 
like to find out what the nature of that connection is.

As others have pointed out, though, even the assumption of some kind of 
conjunctive relationship needs to be analysed further.

In any case, sequentiality certainly does not have great explanatory power 
here. Sequentiality is, I would argue, a product of the narrative genre, 
rather than an inbuilt grammatical component of the wayyiqtol verb.


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au