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[Alviero Niccacci <alviero.niccacci AT studiumbiblicum.org>]

Matt wrote:

>  The point that one of my teachers made is that since the book of Joshua
>  starts with a waw-consecutive, it is meant to be read as a continuation of
>  the Torah.  He made the point that throughout the TaNaK, there
>  are numerous
>  points where books start with a waw-consecutive and that this is
>  a literary
>  tool used by the authors to portray them as a linear story, and that we
>  should read them in that light.

Dear Matt,

this one of your teachers is correct in my view. If you read Italian, 
you may refer to my paper, "Organizzazione canonica della Bibbia 
ebraica. Tra sintassi e retorica": Rivista biblica 43 (1995) 9-29.
Best wishes,
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: variant pronunciation
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People in Texas don't pronounce consonants differently!  Only vowels!
Except for a few disappearing r's - and I learned all about that issue in
high school.  So I imagine that students of English in France or Israel know
about it too.   Could tell you exactly in which part of the country r's
disappear  - the list includes New York City and Massachusetts.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com
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From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: variant pronunciation


> On 17/04/2004 10:48, Dora Smith wrote:
>
> >...
> >
> >Whatever the explanation for dalet and tau morphing into th is, can you
guys
> >please provide an explanation that makes sense in light of competent
people
> >and entire temples full of them not ever pronouncing it that way?
> >
> >
> >
> Dora, the answer to this one is dialect differences. I guess that in
> Buffalo you found competent people and entire classes full of people who
> didn't pronounce English vowels the way you now daily hear them
> pronounced in Texas. But that does not mean that Texans don't speak like
> they actually do. Similarly, just because Jews in Buffalo or wherever
> don't pronounce Hebrew like Yemenite etc Jews and didn't bother to teach
> you their pronunciation, it doesn't mean that the Yemenites don't
> pronounce it like they do.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
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