Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 18/02/2004 22:44, Yigal Levin wrote:

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> From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
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> > VAV?  In Biblical times????
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> > JK
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> OK, Waw. Digamma. As long as we all know what we're talking about.
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> Yigal
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Vav, or more completely HEBREW LETTER VAV, is the internationally 
recognised name of the letter in question, as standardised in ISO 10646. 
Yigal was identifying the letter, not discussing its pronunciation.

To go back to the subject of vowel reduction, this topic is covered (in 
a highly technical manner) in Henry Churchyard's thesis, available 
online via http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/.

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