To: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecclesiastes 3:11
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:12:45 +0000
On Nov 17, 2007 8:01 PM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:
> Dear Yitzhak,
>
> Reference Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, page 483, Para. 152y, #2. It states the
> following:
I didn't read his dissertation yet. However, I doubt that his conclusions
differ from what I suggested -- In normative Biblical Hebrew, ?$r
always introduces
a clause, and separates between complete clauses. "mbly" is not the
end of a complete clause. It can't be divided this way. However, "mbly" is
very similar to "without" and ?$r to "which", so that we could argue that the
reading "without which" is justified if we adopt some non-normative syntax.
But we still have to explain the non-normative syntax. Greek influence
may provide the solution to this, but I don't know Greek to know if it would
have provided such influence.