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The waw Consecutive/waw Contrastive and the Perfect. Verb Tense, Context, and Texture in Old Aramic and Biblical Hebrew, with Comments on the Deir'Alla Dialect and Post-Biblical Hebrew

2001; De Gruyter; Volume: 113; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1515/zatw.2001.017

1613-0103

Victor Sasson,

Historical and Linguistic Studies

In responding to T. Muraoka's and M. Rogland's criticism of his new theses regarding the waw consecutive/contrastive in Biblical Hebrew and Old Aramaic, the writer examines the major criticisms and rejects them either as faulty or as untenable. He elaborates further on some old Aramaic inscriptions that he had discussed earlier and on the yaqtul/yaqtulu hypothetis, using ksh (perfect and imperfect) in Ex 15 as a test case. Then a brief reassessment of the Deir'Alla dialect is offered in the light of the Tell Dan inscription. He suggests that the Aramaic linguistic elements in the Deir'Alla texts now gain more significance. There follows further analysis of the reasons for the decline and demise of the waw consecutive in post-biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew. The present article, thus, reaffirms and strengthens the theses presented in the writer's earlier study.