Grammarians

Relevance Theory and the Problem of Tense-Aspect in Biblical Hebrew

Genesis 22 is a common narrative text that is used in introductory biblical Hebrew courses. There are several points of syntax and narrative style in that passage that are often overlooked by both beginning-intermediate students and even by Hebrew grammarians. Consider Gen 22:3 ויקם וילך אל המקום אשר אמר לו האלהים and he [...]

By Randall Buth|2017-06-12T21:31:28-07:00September 15th, 2013|Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Hebrew in First Century, Koine Greek|6 Comments

Word Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative Functional Approach

An article by Randall Buth Introduction The basic premise of this paper is as follows: a generative-functional approach to the Biblical Hebrew (BH) nominal (or verbless) clause provides a simple, adequate, linguistic framework. It explains the discontinuities in the data and is able to unite and explain the Lists and ad hoc rules of many [...]

By Gary Alley|2017-06-12T21:31:31-07:00September 29th, 2012|Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Blog|Comments Off

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