To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: BH TMA, Bryan
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:39:20 -0500
Hi Vince, you wrote:
>
> but let me ask you: do you think it is possible to argue hebrew "hayu
> kotevim" is a "verb form"? and in what way would it be different from
> english "were writing" ...?
My first reservation would be in thinking of HYH as a be-verb. I don't
think it is. I think it means "become,happen" so that hayu kotevim means
they had become writers. I think hayah lo means specifically that it *had
become* his rather than it *was* his. hu' lo would be it was (is) his. I
think HYH is closer to Gr ginomai than eimi.
Do you need a copulative verb form for your model?
>
> btw, are coming up for the SBL ...?
I am scheduled to preach Sun.
Yours, B.
B. M. Rocine
Living Word Church
6101 Court St. Rd.
Syracuse, NY 13206