Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Schmuel <schmuel AT bigfoot.com>]

Shalom b-hebrew,

Dan Dyke, (about adonai and adoni)
> This is a distinction only seen in the pointed text is it not?  If so then 
> could it not be just a Masoretic invention-convention.

Schmuel

True, but some of us consider the vowel points as inspired....

eg..

Romans 3
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles 
of God.

There is an interesting article defending the Masoretic vowel points ...
The Inspiration of the Hebrew Letters & Vowel-Points
   By George Sayles Bishop 1836-1914

And I am interested in the views on this topic...

Orthodox Jews also often have the "inspired" view  (though with different 
justification :-)

One can also hold a view that the Masoretes were accurate in transmitting
different pronunciations without necessarily being 'inspired'.

However if one has a "vowel points added/invention" view, then the distinction
between adonai and adoni disappears ...

Probably the vowel points has been discussed here a lot .. I am late to the 
table.....

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