Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

Maybe you do not want to view an unpointed text, but others may. After all, 
the points are not canonical, they just represent a tradition as it existed 
at the time of the Masorites, a tradition that may or may not be accurate 
according to original intent.

The reason that I started reading an unpointed text is because I found the 
points a distraction. There are enough times that I disagree with the points 
that I do not like them there, and for the vast majority of the time that I 
agree with them, I found they unnecessarily cluttered up the page. Hence I 
prefer to read an unpointed text. And for fun, I use a pre-exilic (Hebrew, 
not Aramaic) font.

(I did not catalog the times I disagree with the points, after all, I was 
just reading, not making a scholarly work.)

There are times I found that the points make the text complex, sometimes 
unintelligeable, but with a change in points of a key word or two, a simple, 
easily understood passage consistent with its context would leap out.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> On 23/02/2004 13:58, Karl Randolph wrote:
> 
> >Peter:
> >
> >One of the reasons that I recommended the Online Bible BHS is because it 
> >is coded as an unpointed text. Therefore, searches using an unpointed 
> >search field are supported. It is not perfect.
> >
> >Do the texts you recommend support unpointed searches? ...
> >
> 
> Texts don't support anything. I have software which supports unpointed 
> searches.
> 
> >... Do they allow default unpointed viewing? ...
> >
> 
> No, but why would I want to do that? I have already pointed out to you 
> some of the serious errors you have fallen into by reading the unpointed 
> text.
> 
> >... If the answer is yes to both, then there is no advantage to getting 
> >Online Bible and a Macintosh. If no to either, then a Macintosh, 
> >especially if one can get it free, even for only Bible studies, is worth 
> >it.
> >
>
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
> 

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