Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Chris Watts <dekruidnootjes AT eircom.net>]

"""""There is a pattern of usage for the conjugations, but that  
pattern doesn’t
fit tense, aspect nor mood.""""""

I have read quite some stuff on imperfect and perfect and seen how  
the changes in classification of the verbal system has taken place.   
Perhaps a simple concise illumination about how you see things would  
be interesting for me, since I agree certainly that one has to  
abandon one's own cultural and sanitised compartimentalisation of the  
tenses and try to grab the hebraic perspectief, not easy, but the  
step in that direction seems a good one.

I had to so often do this when I was living and learning in Holland  
their language, my frustrations with the Dutch, in retrospect, were  
invariably as a result of trying to translate as I read or listened.   
As I became 'one' with the language it all made sense.  And I believe  
that the hebrew language for a great part only makes sense if it is  
kept within its unique context, far removed from our mortgage based  
society where the street lights are our stars and the shops are our  
harvests.

So please tell me how you see the aspekt/mood/tense/persepective in  
the verbal organisation.

Karl W. Randolph.
Chris Watts
Ireland



There is a pattern of usage for the conjugations, but that pattern  
doesn’t
fit tense, aspect nor mood.

Karl W. Randolph.