Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal$aA Response to Ellen van Wolde
This article responds to the innovative and stimulating research by Ellen van Wolde in a previous volume of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She claims that the Niphal is middle voice and can be passive, ‘if (and only if) an external argument, coded as an external Agent, is present’. My r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2021
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2021, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 291-308 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Hebrew language
/ Grammar
/ Semitic languages
/ Passive mood
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Passive
B Niphal B Voice B Middle B Biblical Hebrew |
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| Summary: | This article responds to the innovative and stimulating research by Ellen van Wolde in a previous volume of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She claims that the Niphal is middle voice and can be passive, ‘if (and only if) an external argument, coded as an external Agent, is present’. My research however, demonstrates that such a description of the passive is both inadequate in view of the world’s languages and incongruent with Niphal. In addition, my response lays bare how such a prescription of the middle voice to the Niphal in the Hebrew Bible is circulus probando and unconvincing. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "The Niphal as middle voice and its consequence for meaning (2019)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089220916506 |