Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Peter:

After all, this is the B-Hebrew list, so 
why shouldn’t we limit this discussion to 
Biblical Hebrew?

What steamed me is to read that, based on 
this postulated proto-Semitic, Biblical 
Hebrew was different from what we should 
expect from looking at the unpointed text. 
It steamed me because it is taking concepts 
from outside of Biblical Hebrew and making 
it more authoritative than the surviving 
texts.

Do you suppose that when Phoenician and 
Aramaic adopted the 22 character Hebrew 
alphabet, that they adopted it unchanged 
because they shared the same set of 
consonantal phonemes at that time? (That’s 
just a throw out question, I don’t intend 
to discuss it at length.)

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> …  but I agree with 
> your general principle - although with the caveat that you need to 
> consider surviving texts in all Semitic languages, not just in Hebrew, 
> if you want to conclude anything beyond the bounds of Hebrew itself.
>
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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