... And then, I explained why the odd "future perfect" is just future tense with
deictic shift, not a separate mood or tense. ...
But it is not "the odd", this is a regular and rather common usage, over 1000 times in the Hebrew Bible.
... Those who don't accept future
with deictic shifts and idioms, wind up inventing a separate mood for every
turn and every idiom. And then, they claim that those moods are "not
exactly" future, ...
No, I claim that this usage of YIQTOL is not future, not at all future, has no relationship to the future at all.
It is an imperfective form referring to a past continuous or repeated event.
YIQTOL is not at all analogous with this use of the English "will" form. YIQTOL is NOT future, in biblical Hebrew. You promised to retract this claim when I provided the evidence. I provided the evidence. Now you will retract it, future imperative - at least if you want to retain any credibility at all.
Perhaps we are talking about more or less the same thing.
I don't assert that all yiqtols are "future reference from the point of view
of narrator's contemporaries."
I dispute that yiqtols are imperfects, or any given mood. ...
No one here has said that YIQTOLs are "imperfects" (Russian имперфект), for this is a label for a type of tense like English "I was doing" or the Russian imperfective past. The claim is that YIQTOL represents the imperfective aspect, corresponding to the Russian несовершенный вид, which can be past, present or future but must be continuous or repetitive.
I accept that YIQTOL may also be used for future actions which are not continuous or repetitive
Well, I agree that the narrators used YIQTOL without understanding them as future, and that implies further that we agree that this is not a future tense.
... Some yiqtols are intelligible as future tense in Hebrew and Russian, but not in English.
What I insist on, is that non-straight-future uses of yiqtol are clear from the context, leaving no room for interpretation, ...
I see absolutely no room for interpretation as future in Genesis 2:6,10 - unless you are claiming that the Garden of Eden is future?
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