Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>]

At 07:09 PM 7/9/2003 +0300, shaih AT post.tau.ac.il wrote:
>not only printed material...
>
>as it happens, i am now at cambridge university library, examining some
geniza
>manuscripts (and reading b-hebrew!). the alef-lamed combination is extant in
>almost all the fragments i've checked (some 50-70), some of them date back to
>the tenth and ninth centuries CE.
>
>shai heijmans
>
Which I suppose is the answer to Maurice's suggestion. Shai, is the combo
where each letter has its own vowel?

Yigal





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