Biblical Hebrew Forum

["frater three" <fraterthree AT lycos.com>]

Dear members,
I have some questions on the pronunciation of some words of Genesis 2:7:
1)Why does the word B)PYW is pronounced as "beapav" without the Yod sound? 
For me, it should be "beapayv".
2)The right pronunciation of WYHY is "vayehy" or "vayhy"? I know a shewa is 
pronounced after a closed syllable and it's not pronounced after an open 
syllable, so this pronunciation should be "vayhy". 
Thanks in advance for your answers or any corrections,
Fernando


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Subject: Re: alliteration
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Zellmer" <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: alliteration


> Jack,
>
> I'm not quite sure I follow your logic here.  You posit that the original
> uses of poetry were as mnemonics, yet you seem to be arguing against the
> assignment of alliteration to poetry for an oral ancient society.  Perhaps
I
> don't understand what is the "modern literate sense" of alliteration (or
its
> supposed assignment to poetry??).  Alliteration is a modern mnemonic
device
> often utilized in modern day prose, whether oral or written.  Since it is
> not used exclusively in poetry today, I'm not aware of anyone who assigns
it
> exclusively to ancient poetry.  Is there someone who has taken that
position
> that you know of?
>
> I would have thought from Andrew's question that he would have been
> surprised if it were not found in prose.  He just couldn't think of any
> examples.


I think I did a poor job of making my thoughts clear, Paul, easy to do when
a subject could be covered in a 2 volume set <g>.  The background of my
position is my sense that there is a more profound difference between an
oral and literate society than is appreciated and factored into our studies
of ancient texts.  What I meant was that the embroidery of poetry in an oral
society was primarily functional while poetry in a literate society is
primarily aesthetic.  I was attempting to draw the line between a functional
alliteration as a mnemonic tool and alliteration as pure decoration.

Jack