Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Randall:

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:

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>  Well, in the above discussion on אני הולך it was the 'Russian' who
>>>> incorrectly cried 'foul'.
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>> Curious: in what way did the Russian incorrectly cry “foul”? What was
>> incorrect? Do you have Biblical examples to back up how it was wrong?
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> It was the 'Russian' who claimed that in hearing participles in present
> tense speech he "only heard" modern Hebrew, and that the Subject-Verb word
> order was "English". The thread showed that those were traits of Biblical
> Hebrew and were not grounds for criticism. I can't change BH to be different
> from these in places where it isn't !
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Let me refer back to what I wrote on the fourth, “To be serious, when I hear
people consistently speaking using a syntax where there is a pronoun
followed by a verb in a participle form in the same way as English uses the
present tense verb, it sounds like modern Israeli Hebrew which has a tense
based verbal usage.” We don’t find this pattern in Biblical Hebrew. In fact,
not all the times when a pronoun is present does it precede the participle,
e.g. Numbers 22:22. An individual sentence, yes, but not every sentence.
This was highly artificial and potentially inaccurate.

However, this was only one short segment of one session out of a whole class
of several sessions, so what happens in other classes is either more
damning, or clears up the situation.

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>> Randall Buth, PhD
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