George: This is not the only example of this use of the conjugations, the most notorious similar example is found in Genesis 2:9, 19, both verses referring to events that happened prior to the creation of man, yet listed later.
Karl W. Randolph. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:10 AM, George Athas <[email protected]>wrote: > This seems like an attempt to harmonize the sources, and then reading the > verbal conjugations in such a way that allows for this harmonization. > > > GEORGE ATHAS > Director of Postgraduate Studies > Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia) > > > On 31/03/2012, at 12:11 PM, "K Randolph" <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > I will answer a linguistic question here. > > Because the Hebrew verbs do not conjugate for tense, that sometimes can > lead to misunderstanding. One of those is that sometimes when the writer > assumes that the audience understands that a certain event happened before > another, the writer then writes a rather abbreviated account that needs > context from other sources in order to understand the order of events, > especially when an earlier event is listed after a latter one. An English > writer (German also) would be able to indicate through tense the order of > events. > > Here Haggai 2:18 is not clear as to the order of events, other sources > indicate that the foundation was laid well before the time of Haggai. The > context around Haggai 2:18 also seems to indicate that a certain amount of > time had passed since the foundation was laid. So linguistically, there is > no problem in recognizing that Haggai referred to the same event as Ezra. > It’s just that the Hebrew linguistic practice does not conform to English > practice. > > Karl W. Randolph. > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:43 AM, George Athas <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > You didn't break the rules at all, Peter. You asked a good question about > Hebrew. Unfortunately, the answer to your question is not an issue with > Hebrew per se, but rather with historiography. And since that is beyond the > scope of the forum, we can't really explore it here (fascinating though it > would be). > > Cheers! > > > GEORGE ATHAS > Director of Postgraduate Studies, > Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au<http://moore.edu.au>) > Sydney, Australia > > > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
