I appreciate your warm comments, thanking you both. Chris Watts Ireland
On 9 Jul 2013, at 18:30, Jerry Shepherd wrote: Hi Chris, Don't beat yourself up. It happens to all of us. Blessings, Jerry Jerry Shepherd Taylor Seminary Edmonton, Alberta [email protected] On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chris Watts <[email protected]>wrote: > Hallo Jerry, I am so utterly dumbfounded. I can not even find out > 'how" I > made that mistake, trying to look at all the places where it does > say 'imp' > thinking what on earth was I looking at. I really have no idea how > that > happened, but thankyou for pointing that out - really, a stupid > situation I > just landed myself in - honestly. Thankyou. (well at least I was > right in > questioning when I thought it was an imperative so some common sense > prevails thank goodness)! > > > Chris Watts > Ireland > > > > On 9 Jul 2013, at 17:35, Jerry Shepherd wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > A couple of cautions here: > > First of all, don't get too enamored with Karl's denigration of the > Masoretic pointing. The Masoretes were preservers and not > innovators. > There is no doubt that they made mistakes; but, for the most part, > their > vocalization of the text is based on reliable tradition that was > handed > down to them from the previous generations of scribes. No reputable > scholar working in Hebrew Bible accepts the work of Masoretes as > completely > reliable. But neither do any reputable scholars simply dismiss > their work > either. So Karl's views, I think I am safe in saying, are not > shared by > the vast majority of scholars on this discussion list. > > Second, and more importantly, I'm not sure how you did it, but you > have > misunderstood the information from Davidson's analytical. Perhaps > you were > looking at the wrong line, or you misinterpreted Davidson's > abbreviations. > For this particular form, Davidson indicates that the form is a Hiphil > perfect (he uses the term preterite) 1 person singular with a > prefixed waw > consecutive, which is exactly right. > > Blessings, > > Jerry > > Jerry Shepherd > Taylor Seminary > Edmonton, Alberta > [email protected] > ______________________________**_________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/**mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew<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
