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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Which is exactly what I was talking about. But thanks for the correction
about the Leningrad Codex, Peter.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Christopher V. Kimball" <kimball AT ntplx.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Rafe" and the vocal sheva.


> On 20/01/2004 05:16, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Mesorah Publications, in its Artscroll prayerbook series (i.e. "Siddur
> > Eitz Chaim") uses a rafe-like horizontal line above a sheva-ed
> > consonant to indicate a vocal sheva (sh'va na) except for the
> > consonant that is the first in the word. This is very helpful, but has
> > nothing to do with a rafe, as I understand it.
> >
> >
> Well, *this* use of (pseudo-)rafe may be "a recent innovation, maybe
> imported from the Yiddish printers," for it is "certainly not a
> masoretic mark." This also implies dependence on a particular modern
> editor's judgment about which shevas are vocal, which may be different
> from the original Masoretic pronunciation.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
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