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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] fred on 2 tenses at the same sentence
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:35:57 -0500

You may equally well ask Why does the masoretic text employ the form $ABAR in Isaiah 14:5, but the form $IBER in Ex. 9:25? Do they differ in meaning? The answer to this is, methinks, not maybe, but an unequivocal no.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:24 PM, fred burlingame wrote:

I can sympathize with the physician and the attorney, since the future
cannot be known with certainty. But here, we are dealing with past events,
the 1000 year old masoretic text. And yet no one appears willing to say:
"the masoretic text employs two verb forms "yiqtol" and "qatal," rather than
one verb form, for the following reason: ...... "

It seems to me the reason for it (two, versus one, verb forms), is
susceptible to both identification and articulation in a sentence or two.






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