Special Issue IOSOT 2013 - Books and Journals

C. Hif ʿil
The same rules apply here too:
S. Japhet / Vetus Testamentum IOSOT (2013) 36-76 43
‎38‎‏.ואכרית а) In Chr. the form which exists in the 1 pers. sing. is full: 1 Chr. xvii 8
In all other instances, without any exception, the form is short.39
b) In Ezr.-Neh. as well as in the Sam. Pent. and the Isaiah Scroll,40 short and
full forms appear together. The full form occurs twice: Neh. iv 9 (3) ‏;ונעמיד and
‏.ויביא Neh. viii 2
We may conclude that:
1) The general tendency of late biblical Hebrew is towards a developing use of
full forms in the impf. cons.
2) This tendency is demonstrated in Ezr.-Neh. where short and full forms
stand together.
3) In clear opposition to the general rule and the practice of Ezr.-Neh.,
the Chr. applies rules of his own: full forms in 1 pers. sing. and short forms
elsewhere.
4) The astonishing accuracy and consistency in Chr. gives the impression of
a conscious awareness of the problem. Actually, the Chr. does not express the
genuine state of the language, but deliberately opposes it.
ואקטלָ‏ ה 2. The Lengthened Imperfect Consecutive
Another result of the growing lack of distinction between the moods is the
undifferentiated use of אקטל and ‏.אקטלה Thus the form אקטלה replaces the
form אקטל and a new form emerges: ואקטלה 41 which has no semantic value
of its ואקטלה own.42 is very common in Ezr.-Neh. and Daniel. In Ezr.-Neh.
alone, it occurs almost fifty times.43 In the Sam. Pent. and in the Isaiah Scroll
38) See further p. 338. A further example, which is a subject of a textual debate is ואגד in 1 Chr. xvii
10. The parallel form is והגיד )2 Sam. xvii 11). Cf. I. L. Seeligmann: “Indications of editorial alteration
and adaptation . . .”. V.T. XI: 1961, p. 208ff.; Rudolph, Chronikbücher, p. 130f.
39) For example: ‎7t‏—ויולד ‎7t‏—ויבא ‏,‏‎5t‏—ויכן etc.
40) Kutscher brings only one instance of such a transition: Isa. xxxi 2, ויבא—‏MT I. ‏.ויביא—.‏S He
notes however that this is the only example of this form in this verb in the whole book of Isaiah
(op. cit., p. 265). Sperber presents fifteen examples for such a change in the Sam. Pent., op. cit.,
§ 49, 1, pp. 187-188.
41) Cf. Bergsträsser, op. cit., p. 23.
42) Cf. Joüon, § 47d, p. 107.
43) They are: Ezr. vii 28; viii 15, 16, 17 (twice, once in the Kethib alone), 23 (twice), 24, 25, 26, 28, 31;
ix 3 (twice), 5 (twice), 6. Neh. i 4; ii 1, 6, 9, 13; v 7 (twice), 8, 13; vi 3, 8, 11, 12; vii 5; xiii 7, 8, 9 (twice),
10, 11 (twice), 13, 17 (twice), 19 (twice), 21 (twice), 22, 30.