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RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T.

From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
To: "'Karl Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, "'Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T.
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:01:09 -0400

> How much Hebrew epigraphic material predating the 6th cent.
> BC is there?

348 inscriptions are transcribed and translated in Gogel, pages 386-494.

> Seeing as the oldest extent texts we have of Genesis are
> copies dating only about 2000 years ago, how can we be sure
> that copyists did not add the yod?

We can't be sure. That's the point.

> Though if that were true,
> wouldn't we expect some examples of "elohim" without a yod to
> survive into the MT?

No.

See Kutscher's monumental _The Language and Linguistic Background of the
Isaiah Scroll_ regarding early scribal orthography.

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PennerThesis

[b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., David P Donnelly, 09/11/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Ken Penner, 09/12/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Ken Penner, 09/12/2003
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., David P Donnelly, 09/12/2003
  - RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Ken Penner, 09/15/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Karl Randolph, 09/12/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Karl Randolph, 09/12/2003
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Peter Kirk, 09/12/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Karl Randolph, 09/15/2003
  - RE: [b-hebrew] Elohiym has a Hireq Yod in the M.T., Ken Penner, 09/15/2003