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["Jennifer & Bruce McKinnon" <jennifer.bruce AT telus.net>]

Rolf, I also would be interested in seeing your comments.

Regards,
Bruce McKinnon
Victoria, Canada


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry H." <nebarry AT verizon.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Alleged "prophetic tense"


> Please send the comments, and thanks.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog
>
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 9:29 AM, "Rolf" <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no> wrote:
>
> > Dear Barry,
> >
> > I agree with you, there is no "prophetic tense." The view was that the 
> > Hebrew conjugations expressed completed and uncompleted action. However, 
> > many verbs dis violate these explanations. So, the concept "prophetic 
> > perfect" was coined in order to explain these anomalous verbs.
> >
> > I made some comments on this in my dissertation: "A New Understanding of 
> > the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew An Attempt to Distinguish Between 
> > Semantic and Pragmatic Factors," Oslo:2005. If you do not have it in your 
> > University library, I can send you a copy of the comments regarding 
> > "prophetic perfect."  But it would be fine to have this dissertation in 
> > the library, because it is the only work where all the around 80.000 
> > finite and infinite verbs in the Tanakh, the DSS, the inscriptions, and 
> > Ben Sira have been analyzed.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rolf Furuli
> > Stavern
> > Norway
> >
> >
> > Lørdag 1. Desember 2012 15:00 CET skrev Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>:
> >
> > > I'm writing an essay in response to some people who are seriously
> > > misusing the concept. My argument is that it doesn't really exist, not
> > > even as a usage. That a particular passage may be prophetic has nothing
> > > to do with the particular aspect of the verbs employed, but the context
> > > of the passage and how it is then subsequently understood in the history
> > > of interpretation (I'm especially thinking of canonical interpretation,
> > > but not restricted to that). I'd appreciate any comments on this, or > 
> > > references to any published discussions beyond the apologetically driven
> > > "articles" I've seen on various web pages.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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