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
Ken M. Penner, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Religious Studies 2329 Notre Dame Avenue, 409 Nicholson Tower St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada (902)867-2265 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 So may I ask then for your thougts and other peoples' thoughts on this article http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=675 Chris Watts Ireland On 2 Jul 2013, at 10:13, Petr Tomasek wrote: 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... Petr Tomasek _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
