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Genesis 1–11: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this linguistic commentary, author Barry Bandstra brings students of biblical Hebrew a non-traditional perspective on the first eleven chapters of Genesis. The approach is called functional grammar and brings clarity to verb forms, rare words, unusual syntactical constructions, and more.

Table 6. Clause Combining Combining Conjoiners* Class clause to clause complex כֵּן,עַל־כֵּן,אַחֲרֵי־כֵן conjunctive adjunct clause to clause וְ,כִּי conjunction embedded clause to containing clause בְּ,לְ,כְּ,אֲשֶׁר preposition, relative pronoun The set of BH verb tense forms is integrally related to the clause combining system in so far as the basic choices in past narration are between wayyiqtol and qatal. The former is the default choice for making the Process the Theme. The latter signals a
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