[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Tue Dec 13 10:45:44 EST 2005


Don wrote: 

> there are plenty of suffix conjugation verbs 
> that are non-past, thus indicating that Hebrew's verbal system is not 
> purely temporal, in fact, not primarily so. I think it is primarily 
> aspectual, but is there no grammaticalization (how the ^&$ does one 
> spell that!) of time in Hebrew? I'm not as sure as I was.

Can a model of a verbal system really be disproved by showing there are
"plenty" of counter-examples? 
If so, I am quite certain that the aspectual model for Hebrew can also
easily be disproved. But this is B-Greek.

Don wrote:
> The poetic 
> texts in the Hebrew Bible also show a difficult-to-decipher verbal 
> system. In other words, in Hebrew the verbs that are problematic for 
> understanding the verbal system tend to be found in poetic texts and 
> some wonder if the fact that they are poetic is where the rub 
> lies. 

I'm currently working on the Sibylline Oracles. I haven't noticed a major
difference in the verbal syntax. (Morphology, yes.)
For Hebrew, have you read Diethelm Michel's work on the conjugations in
Psalms? For those who don't have German, Waltke & O'Connor devote some space
to Michel.

Ken Penner
Co-Director, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha: http://www.uwo.ca/kings/ocp/
Flash! Pro vocabulary software: http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash




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