Daniel E. Carver

This is the first full-length monograph published on one of the most intriguing and knotty challenges of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system: the so-called ‘prophetic perfect’ or ‘prophetic’ use of qāṭal. This study takes a strong linguistic approach, improving and expanding on other scholars’ advances, and makes unique contributions through a culturally and conceptually contextualised approach to prophetic texts. These...