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Students of Biblical Hebrew know that Bruce K. Waltke and Michael P. O’Connor’s An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax is a standard intermediate reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew. William D. Barrick has built on their work by providing a commentary that works through all forty chapters of this important Hebrew grammar. Comments on Waltke and O’Connor, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew...

§29.6b, c (476): Waltke and O’Connor observe and conclude that Hebraists need to maintain a distinction between “completed” and “complete.” This distinction dare not be ignored by readers, since it is vital to understanding the authors’ presentations throughout the remainder of their volume. §29.6f (477): It is at this point in their discussion that Waltke and O’Connor create the greatest confusion. While rejecting the terms waw-conversive and waw-consecutive as too restrictive, they attribute a
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