Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

"YIQTOL" is the root QTL loaded with two internal personal pronouns,  
while QATAL is bereft.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:32 AM, fred burlingame wrote:

> Hello Isaac:
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> It appears the issue is far from resolved ....
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> 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.