Longacre, Robert, “Weqatal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Prose,” in Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, ed Robert D. Bergen, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1994, pp 50-98.

In this article, Longacre applies a discourse-modular approach to describe the use of the weqatal form in Biblical Hebrew prose. He concludes that, rather than primarily being used as a consecutive tense (ie following the tense of the previous verb), weqtal is used in the main verb sequence of predictive, procedural, and instructional discourse. However, [...]