I can see the value in teaching unpointed Hebrew first, and only afterward
(in the second half of a typical introductory course) teaching the various
differences for weak verbs and vowel changes.
Ken
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Associate Professor, Religious Studies
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Watts
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:39 AM
To: Petr Tomasek
Cc: B-Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Passive Qal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:09:40AM -0700, K Randolph wrote:
> Bryant:
>
> Two thoughts come to mind:
>
> 1) in the Yiqtol conjugation, in an unpointed text, there are no
> differences between the Qal, Niphal, Piel, Pual, and hophal for
> regular verbs. So how do you know which binyan was used for this verb?
But we have a pointed text which goes back to quite reliable massoretic oral
tradition...