To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: bereshit (translations) GfSomsel
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:25:50 +0100
>> Let me invent a criterion: if I see convincing evidence that
>> a time phrase such as br'$yt can stand at the beginning of a
>> book without any qualification, then I might consider it
>> possible in the case of Gen 1:1, otherwise I will consider the
>> notion simply unsupportable speculation.
>>
>> It's not difficult to do this sort of thing.
>
>Except we have so (relatively) few books! The data pool is too small for
>such certainty.
And that's the problem with asking for nice clear time phrases
such as b-noun to govern more than one clause. You may see the
problem with requiring more than one, as I have already shown
that there are many single clauses governed by b-noun. Why
should b-noun governed clauses be any different from other
governed clauses?