Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

That's a really good comment, Dave! I'm glad you posted it.


GEORGE ATHAS
Director of Postgraduate Studies,
Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au)
Sydney, Australia


From: Dave Washburn 
<davidlwashburn AT gmail.com<mailto:davidlwashburn AT gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:20:12 -0700
To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Psa 1,1f

I would narrow this down to say that, yes, it's biblical Hebrew, and yes,
there are discernible syntactic patterns to biblical Hebrew. But we
shouldn't spend too much time trying to explain "exceptions" if they appear
in poetry, because poetry in all languages I've ever looked at (12 or so)
will often produce "exceptions" deliberately.