[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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