I recently posted a request for tips on resources for this topic to the
Biblical Studies List and The Biblicalist, particularly in respect to
qatal/yiqtol sequences. I've collected suggestions below and would be
grateful for any further tips, as well as any critical comments on the
theories proposed (Niccacci, for example, seems to part company with Berlin
and Tatu by treating qatal/yiqtol sequences in parallelism as also having
some kind of temporal dimension). [p.s. I've posted this too my blog, in case
you want to update it there:
http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/bibliography-for-verb-system-in.html]
Adele Berlin, "Grammatical Aspects of Biblical Parallelism," in Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979), 17-43.
Peter C. Craigie, "Excursus II: The Translation of Tenses in Hebrew Poetry," in vol. 19, Word Biblical Commentary (2nd ed.; Word Biblical Commentary Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Reference & Electronic, 2004), 110-113.
Alviero Niccacci. "Poetic Syntax and Interpretation of Malachi." Liber Annuus 51 (2001): 55-107.
_____."The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in Poetry" in Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives (Eisenbrauns, 2006).
Diethelm Michel, Tempora und Satzstellung in den Psalmen, Bonn 1960, § 36 (p. 249)
Silviu Tatu. The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Semitic
Couplets: A Case Study in Systemic Functional Grammar with Applications on
the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic Poetry (Eisenbrauns, 2008).
Philip Sumpter
http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/
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