Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Chavoux:

a most interesting subject; time ....

einstein and his predecessors proved that time exists not in isolation, but
rather in relation, to the three spatial dimensions. hence, the boundaries
of space become the borders of time. ...; beginning, middle and end.

the two hebrew tenses (perfect & imperfect) recognize that reality in the
form of complete and incomplete action.

Example: isaiah 66:24 clause: "and fire of them she shall not be quenched"
refers to future incomplete, rather than future never complete, action.
c.f., jeremiah 17:27.

isaiah conflated space/time and eternity .... not; unlike today.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Chavoux Luyt <chavoux AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Shalom the list!
>
> Has anybody read the article "The General/Gnomic Usage of  Hebrew
> Morphologies in the Book of Isaiah."
> by ANDREW BOWLING,  Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistic in
> GIALens.  (2007)?
>
> I am not sure if I understand him correctly, but he seems to imply
> that the qtl and yqtl forms of the Hebrew verb has less of a time
> meaning than I always understood. Is it possible that they could
> indicate relative time (i.e. yqtl happens after qtl, but not
> necessarily in the future when seen from the present)? I must confess
> that I have not read all the examples in the Hebrew yet, so I don't
> know whether he considers the waw consecutive.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Regards
> Chavoux Luyt
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