The Hebrew Yiqtol is often the topic of scholarly discussion. The past week has seen a couple posts on the topic in the biblioblogosphere, and I wanted to take this opportunity to point any one who is interested and may have missed the discussion so far to the relevant articles. To begin Alexander Andrason had an article published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. You can find it here [PDF warning]. As an aside, I’d like to point out that the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures is one of my favorite journals. It consistently delivers top quality scholarship while maintaining a free and open electronic distribution model. Getting back to recent discussions of the yiqtol verbal form, Randall Buth interacts with Andrason’s article here.

As some readers may know, I am interested in the Hebrew verbal system. That being the case it should come as no surprise that I find Andrason’s article extremely interesting. However, I would like to withhold any substantive comments until I’ve had a chance to process through his points in a more thorough manner.