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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: Karl Ivan Baca <bacai AT usa.net>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Shema & Alfebeth
  • Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 08:42:16 +0200


Just think what would happen if you read Deut. 6:4 without the guttural
ayin (something that has happened in various stages of the Hebrew
language) and confusing the daleth of the last word with a resh (a
typical scribal error both in palaeo-Hebrew and the Aramaic script):

Perhaps, O Israel, YHWH our God, is another YHWH?
Or:
Perhaps, O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is another?

Also, the enlarged letters form the word 'ed, "witness", something quite
befitting a confession of faith.
Sincerely,
--
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
Beit Berl Post Office 44905
Israel






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