Statistical Determination of Genre in Biblical Hebrew - Institute for ...

Evidence for an Historical Reading of Genesis 1:1–2:3 701Table B6. Finite verb counts for poetry: Former ProphetsTextTotal VerbsPreteritesVerbCountsImperfectsPerfectsWaw-PerfectsTotal FiniteVerbs[ ]/Total Finite VerbsTotal Non-Finite VerbsPreteritesImperfectsPerfectsWaw-Perfects61 Samuel15:22–237 2 0 1 0 3 4 0.67 0.00 0.33 0.0072 Samuel 1:19–27; 3:33b–3430 4 6 12 0 22 8 0.18 0.27 0.55 0.008 2 Samuel 23:1b–7 17 0 6 5 0 11 6 0.00 0.55 0.45 0.009 Judges 14:14b 6 1 0 3 0 4 2 0.25 0.00 0.75 0.00102 Kings19:20b–2842 4 4 23 2 33 9 0.12 0.12 0.70 0.06Table B7. Finite verb counts for poetry: Latter ProphetsTextTotal VerbsPreteritesVerbCountsImperfectsPerfectsWaw-PerfectsTotal FiniteVerbs[ ]/Total Finite VerbsTotal Non-Finite VerbsPreteritesImperfectsPerfectsWaw-Perfects11 Isaiah 11:1–9, 12–12:6 66 1 21 5 20 47 19 0.02 0.45 0.11 0.4312 Isaiah 21:1–15 65 3 4 19 2 28 37 0.11 0.14 0.68 0.0713 Isaiah 29:1–24 111 6 23 16 26 71 40 0.08 0.32 0.23 0.3714 Isaiah 30:1–18 70 3 21 10 2 36 34 0.08 0.58 0.28 0.0615 Isaiah 37:22b–29 37 2 4 20 3 29 8 0.07 0.14 0.69 0.1016 Isaiah 41:1–29 120 5 67 21 0 93 27 0.05 0.72 0.23 0.0017 Isaiah 60:1–22 80 0 37 7 16 60 20 0.00 0.62 0.12 0.2718 Isaiah 65:1–25 109 1 41 24 16 82 27 0.01 0.50 0.29 0.2019 Isaiah 66:1–16, 22–23 83 2 25 18 11 56 27 0.04 0.45 0.32 0.2020 Jeremiah 4:5–8, 13–18 42 1 6 9 0 16 26 0.06 0.38 0.56 0.0021 Jeremiah 4:19–31 53 0 16 22 1 39 14 0.00 0.41 0.56 0.0322 Jeremiah 10:2b–25 69 3 21 21 1 46 23 0.07 0.46 0.46 0.0223 Jeremiah 12:1–13 55 1 12 27 1 41 14 0.02 0.29 0.66 0.0224 Jeremiah 20:7–18 60 4 15 18 5 42 18 0.10 0.36 0.43 0.1225Jeremiah 21:12b–14;22:6b–7, 10; 13–17,18b–23, 28–3088 0 20 18 10 48 40 0.00 0.42 0.38 0.2126Jeremiah 31:2–22, 23b,29b, 35–37116 2 27 30 15 74 42 0.03 0.36 0.41 0.2027 Jeremiah 46:3–28 105 2 24 31 8 65 40 0.03 0.37 0.48 0.1228Jeremiah 47:2–7;48:1b–20, 28–33, 40–47145 1 27 50 13 91 54 0.01 0.30 0.55 0.1429Jeremiah 50:2, 11–16,21–27, 31–32, 35–38,41–4393 2 19 28 10 59 34 0.03 0.32 0.47 0.1730 Jeremiah 51:25–58 131 3 29 36 21 89 42 0.03 0.33 0.40 0.2431 Ezekiel 19:2b–14 50 20 2 20 1 43 7 0.47 0.05 0.47 0.0232 Micah 3:1–5:15 152 1 48 20 44 113 39 0.01 0.42 0.18 0.3933 Nahum 1:2–15 47 2 13 15 0 30 17 0.07 0.43 0.50 0.0034 Isaiah 18:1–19:15 74 0 18 14 17 49 25 0.00 0.37 0.29 0.3535 Isaiah 50:1–51:23 162 8 50 41 2 101 61 0.08 0.50 0.41 0.0236 Isaiah 44:1–8, 21–28 68 0 27 13 1 41 27 0.00 0.66 0.32 0.02