forgot to add b-hebrew
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From: yochanan bitan, 113313,266
TO: INTERNET:peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG, INTERNET:peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
DATE: 4/23/99 16:15
RE: Copy of: Re[2]: More on wayyiqtol
> Well, thank you for answering Randall's and other criticisms of my
> version of the historic present hypothesis. But then I am not sure
> that they or I will be convinced by this argument or at least this
> presentation of it.
you are correct, that does not answer it.
for one, methodologically, it is using the "less clear" to explain the
"clear". [e.g. ugaritic epic poetry, a different language, should yield
lots of puzzling examples, and it does, which is only different in quantity
from our own psalms, though with even less context.]
for two, lam yaktub is a delightful fossil in arabic, and we have it in a
living language tradition.
braxot
randall buth
Copy of: Re[2]: More on wayyiqtol,
yochanan bitan, 04/25/1999