"In my doctoral thesis I have translated Jeremiah 50 and 51 into English, and this is a *prophecy* about Babel. In the 104 verses I have translated, the following verbs with simple future: 70 yiqtols, 2 weyiqtols, 7 wayyiqtols, 49 weqatals, and 63 qatals. In addition, 4 qatals are translated with future perfect. " The verbs are found in the following verses: Jeremiah 50:1,2,3,5,8,12,15,18,21,23,24,25,27,29,31,33,43,45, and 51:2,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,17,29,30,31,32,33,38,41,42,43,44,55.
Please look at these two chapters and decide how many QATALs and WAYYIQTOLs you will translate by simple future? And if you choose another tense, please indicate your arguments for that.
Of the about one thousand QATALs with future reference I have listed, less than 10 per cent should be viewed as future perfect (according to the context), so in most places I will use simple future. There are quite a number of places where the choice of QATAL, while being simple future, could signal stress of some kind, and this must be considered by the translator. The following questions should be considered: The way grammars and textbooks define QATAL, does this mean that a simple future meaning is excluded? 2) Can we trust these definitions, or are they in need of a revision?
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