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  • From: Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT btlink.net>
  • To: Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Variant forms of vav with holem
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:33:35 +0200

I have not at hand now facsimiles of the L and Aleppo manuscripts, but I am nearly sure that the editors of the BHS just copied a distinction that already is in the manuscript.

I have checked the facsimiles of the following manuscripts and editions that I have at hand and all of them differentiate clearly betwen holam + vav mater lectionis and vav consonant + holam:

Gottweig (Austria), Stiftsbibliothek, ms. 10 and 11 (883), XIV or XV century (Pentateuch + Prophtets, square Ashkenazic script)

Second Rabbinic Bible (Venice 1524-1525), by Jacob ben Hayyim.

Biblia Polyglotta Complutensis (Alcalá de Henares, 1514-1517)

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At 04:02 25/07/2003 -0700, Peter Kirk wrote:
I received the following from a contact in Israel:

Vav Holam may convey two meanings, either just a vowel or a consonant Vav
with the vowel Holam.
Some typographers differentiate these two meaning, many do not. I don't now
if there is any Masoretic basis for the distinction or if it is late, and
whether it is consistently used in those texts that do make the distinction.


I don't know either. Can someone answer this? There is a typographical distinction in the printed BHS (and an encoding distinction in the Michigan-Claremont-Westminster text. But is there actually a distinction in original MSS like L and Aleppo?


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