Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Excuse me, but does this belong in  this list?
 
  Uri


age.Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com> wrote,intere alia, 

To use an 18th century metaphor, the 
creation of a watch uses different 
principles (laws of physics) than the 
operation thereof. The picture that the 
Bible gives is that when God created the 
universe, he did something different than 
what we see going on today. Then after the 
creation, God acted into creation only to 
communicate with mankind and to make some 
actions to advance his goals, in a similar 
manner as a watch maker, after he has made 
a watch, touches it only to wind the spring 
and occasionally to make an adjustment for 
more accurate operation. Likewise, God’s 
actions into history are rare. Where there 
is an alleged action from God into history, 
the answer to its veracity will be found 
not in science, but in historical analysis.


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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Proto-Semitic, was  WAYYIQTOL
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Peter:

English pronounces Latin loan words 
according to a certain set of rules. Was 
Latin at the time of the ceasars spoken 
according to the same rules as modern 
English rules for the same words? No one 
that I know of would make that claim.

By the time of the Masoretes, Hebrew had 
not been spoken as a native language for 
near a millennium. How do we know that the 
Masorete pronunciation, very likely based 
on Aramaic or other languages, was the same 
as Hebrew was spoken a thousand years 
earlier? There is reason to doubt it.

Karl W. Randolph.

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

> 
> Understood. But the original discussion was about the history of the 
> pronunciation of Hebrew. That cannot be understood apart from 
> consideration of other languages.…
> 
> If we studied English on the assumption that its alphabet was developed 
> for English alone, and in isolation from other languages using the same 
> alphabet, we would get some very strange results. If we recognise that 
> the alphabet is borrowed from Latin, we can understand much better what 
> has happened.
>  
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
> 

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