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A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew An Attempt to Distinguish Between Semantic and Pragmatic Factors
The 80,000 verbs of the Hebrew Bible, the DSS, Ben Sira, and the Old Hebrew Inscriptions have been studied. The conclusion is that Hebrew does not have tenses but only aspects. There are more than 20 different definition of aspect, and the one we choose may disturb the data we are studying. To avoid an arbitrary aspect definition, the three universal properties event time, reference time, and deictic center are used. Tense is the relationship between the deictic center and reference time, and aspect is the relationship between event time and reference time. Tense represents deictic time, and aspect represents non-deictic time. The forms yiqtol, wayyiqtol, and weyiqtol represents the imperfective aspect and qatal and weqatal represents the perfective aspect. The traditional view that Hebrew has four conjugations is based on a failure to distinguish between semantic meaning and conversational pragmatic implicature.
509 pages
Published January 1, 2006
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Rolf Furuli
16 books10 followersRolf Johan Furuli was a professor emeritus in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo until his retirement in 2011.
Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984. He became a magister artium in 1995 and doctor artium in 2005. Based on his studies, Furuli has defended the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC. In a 2004 issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Lester L. Grabbe, professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, said of Furuli's study: "Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship. ... F. shows little evidence of having put his theories to the test with specialists in Mesopotamian astronomy and Persian history."
In 2005, Furuli defended his doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of verbal system of Classical Hebrew. In a review of the thesis, professor Elisabeth R. Hayes of Wolfson College, Oxford, wrote: "While not all will agree with Furuli's conclusions regarding the status of the wayyiqtol as an imperfective form, his well-argued thesis contributes towards advancing methodology in Hebrew scholarship."
He has translated a number of documents from Semitic languages and Sumerian into Norwegian.
In 2020, Furuli published a book entitled My Beloved Religion — and the Governing Body in which he maintains that the core doctrines of the denomination are correct but challenges the authority of the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership.
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Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984. He became a magister artium in 1995 and doctor artium in 2005. Based on his studies, Furuli has defended the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC. In a 2004 issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Lester L. Grabbe, professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, said of Furuli's study: "Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship. ... F. shows little evidence of having put his theories to the test with specialists in Mesopotamian astronomy and Persian history."
In 2005, Furuli defended his doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of verbal system of Classical Hebrew. In a review of the thesis, professor Elisabeth R. Hayes of Wolfson College, Oxford, wrote: "While not all will agree with Furuli's conclusions regarding the status of the wayyiqtol as an imperfective form, his well-argued thesis contributes towards advancing methodology in Hebrew scholarship."
He has translated a number of documents from Semitic languages and Sumerian into Norwegian.
In 2020, Furuli published a book entitled My Beloved Religion — and the Governing Body in which he maintains that the core doctrines of the denomination are correct but challenges the authority of the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership.
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