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Oliver Cromwell
April 15th 2004, 02:06 PM
Greetings,

I have been working through Ruth and I am curious what some of the members of this forum's thoughts are on the curious construction found at the end of Ruth 2:7 (from BHS):

ZH $BTH HBYT M(+

Specifically, I am curious about your thoughts on the following points:

1) what do you believe the antecedent of the demonstrative pronoun ZH is,
2) Do you believe that the pronominal suffix attached to the infinitive construct $BTH is functioning as a subject or object,
3) Do you believe that the root of the infinitive construct $BTH is $BT or Y$B
4) What do you believe M(+ is modifying, and in light of all of the preceding:
5) how would you translate this verse?

And if you have opinions with regard to these questions - justification for them would be nice. :ahem:

Regards,

Cromwell