On 12/26/04 3:41 PM, "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie> wrote:
" The Hebrew text can be read as a question or as a statement of
consequence, and HOTTP accepts both as ways to understand the first line.
" Reyburn, W. D., & Fry, E. M. (2000). A handbook on Proverbs. UBS
handbook series;
As HOTTP = Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, an international team of
scholars preparing BH Quinta, this view deserves consideration at the very
least, don't you think?
Well ... maybe, if we knew what the reasons were, but not simply by
invocation of authority. Do you happen to know the rationale for treating
the line as a question? With those arguments in hand we could bounce them
off Bryan's grammatico-syntactical observations.
Chris
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R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Armstrong Fellow in Religion
Pepperdine University
http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cheard
http://www.iTanakh.org
http://www.semioticsandexegesis.info
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