Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>]

> From ronning AT nis.za  Sun Sep  5 05:14:34 1999
> Subject: Re: Jerusalem, neuter plural
> From: John Ronning <ronning AT nis.za>
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 21:26:38 +0200

> Doesn't the fact that it's spelled without the YOD 99+% of the time
> (plus the LXX spelling plus the Aramaic spelling) show that in fact this
> pronunciation is late and contrived?

So does the fact that David is spelled without yodh consistently in
the books of Samuel and Kings mean that his name was originally "Dude"?  ;-)

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