Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Thank you, Sidney. I will tell my mother that I shamed her when I sent you a 
private email advising you that your "Sidlee's" rule made no sense, which you 
then quoted to the entire list.

Perhaps I should shame her even more by telling you that your understanding 
of Hebrew is tortuously difficult to follow, but from what I could glean (and 
I admit it's not very much — perhaps another point to my mother's shame) you  
are *presuming* that Hebrew verbs are all denominative—that is, based on 
nouns. I suspect that you've reached this conclusion through your own 
personal study rather than through interaction with the scholarly world 
(though I could be wrong on that — another point to my own and my maternal 
potential shame). Your apparent reference to Strong's seems to suggest this. 
In any case, from what my humble and shamed faculties can gather, your 
knowledge of Hebrew is either supremely genius for the solitary beacon it 
shines in the shameful darkness, or else it's so deficient that you actually 
need to learn some real proper Hebrew.


Yours shamefully

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

Note: There is no 'u' in Athas. I would prefer if 'u' were not there.