Thank you, Sidney. I will tell my mother that I shamed her when I sent you a private email advising you that your "Sidlee's" rule made no sense, which you then quoted to the entire list.
Perhaps I should shame her even more by telling you that your understanding of Hebrew is tortuously difficult to follow, but from what I could glean (and I admit it's not very much — perhaps another point to my mother's shame) you are *presuming* that Hebrew verbs are all denominative—that is, based on nouns. I suspect that you've reached this conclusion through your own personal study rather than through interaction with the scholarly world (though I could be wrong on that — another point to my own and my maternal potential shame). Your apparent reference to Strong's seems to suggest this. In any case, from what my humble and shamed faculties can gather, your knowledge of Hebrew is either supremely genius for the solitary beacon it shines in the shameful darkness, or else it's so deficient that you actually need to learn some real proper Hebrew. Yours shamefully GEORGE ATHAS Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia) www.moore.edu.au Note: There is no 'u' in Athas. I would prefer if 'u' were not there. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
