Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Charles David Isbell" <cisbell AT home.com>]

Jeffrey Tigay gives the simplest and most traditional ways of explaining
these large letters in his JPS Torah commentary on Deuteronomy.
Shalom,
Charles David Isbell
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From: "Joseph Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:22 PM
Subject: Deut. 6:4 Large Letters


> In BHS Deut 6:4 in the printed text one sees large letters. Why are the
> large letters there? Kelly, Mynatt and Crawford in _The Masorah of Biblia
> Hebraica Stuttgartensia_ p. 36 suggests "the letter shows that the reading
> must be precise. This is probably the function of the large letters in
> Deut. 6:4." Do you agree? If not, what other possible reasons could there
> be?
>
> Thanks
> Brian Tucker
> music AT riverviewcog.org
> Riverview, MI
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