Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ken Penner <kpenner AT stfx.ca>]

In regard to what Karl wrote, quoted below, interested parties might wish to check this claim in what I believe is the relevant thread at http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2011-December/047031.html

 

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Karl wrote:

My experience with Randall Buth is that he made factual errors in Biblical Hebrew where just quoting verses would show the error. This is not just a disagreement in opinion.

 

One that comes to mind was his claim that “today” HYWM never precedes its verb. Yet even a quick electronic search brought up a few times where it does. As an emphatic. In prose. Would he have made that mistake had he read Tanakh 20 times through instead of only twice decades ago? Much less likely. And that was not the only error.