"The Mermaid in the Bathtub is a charming, gorgeously retro retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Little Mermaid,” by beloved Israeli author and illustrator duo Nurit Zarchi and Rutu Modan. One day, a resolutely ordinary young man named Mr. Whatwilltheysay returns home to find Grain-of-Sand, a mermaid, waiting for him in his favorite armchair. Despite his objections, the two embark on a series of very watery adventur ..."
"This book addresses the problem of temporal interpretation within narrative of the biblical Hebrew verb, thus exploring the broader issue of the expression of time in language and the ways in which we can attempt to understand and represent it. Tal Goldfajn offers a summary of this controversy, which has been argued over since at least the tenth century, presenting previous scholarly opinions and theories. She argues that one possible ..."
"C. The stative verbs in biblical Hebrew In most BH grammars there is usually a
reference to a small group of verbs ending in vowels [e] (qatel, e.g. kabed — to
be heavy) and [o] (qatol, e.g. qaton — to be small) in the final stem syllable of the
qatal form. These verbs are known as the stative verbs (see Joiion 1947: 95,
Lambdin 1973: 93, among others). In addition to this morphologically distinct
group of verbs, scholars regard ot ..."