Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 05/12/2003 22:16, Jason Hare wrote:

> Peter,
>
> What if there was something to the fact that since the W and Y in the DSS
> often look the same, then the actual reading of the DSS may not at all
> disagree with the MT or suggest an alternative reading? In the DSS, the Y is
> often written in exactly the same fashion as the W. Is that not the case in
> the scroll(s) containing this passage?
>
>
>  
No, it is not the case in the image in 
http://www.torahresource.com/Newsletter/Ps22.16.pdf. The letter in 
question is immediately followed by an undisputed yod which is about one 
third of the length, and this is a consistent distinction between all 
the vavs and yods in this fragment. This is true not only of the 
highlighted line, which has been tidied up a bit, but also of the line 
below where the letters YBY+W YR)W BY (from v.18 Hebrew) are clearly 
legible. All the vavs are full length, all the yods are significantly 
shorter.

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