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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:48:49 +0000

On 17/11/2004 23:29, Karl Randolph wrote:

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Harstad et al claim that the Byzantine tradition represents an older tradition than
Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and others of the "Coptic" tradition. They say that
accident of preservation does not necessarily mean older tradition.


Well, you can speculate that the Byzantine pronunciation is an older one than the Nestlé etc one, but unless you can produce evidence for this (and you cannot) you have left the realm of scholarship and for that of speculation. And the word "Coptic" is quite inappropriate as these are Greek language texts, of a family sometimes described as Alexandrian, after the city founded by al-Iskandar = Dhul Karnain. He seems to be cropping up in every thread!

Of interest to the B-Hebrew subject, the Byzantine tradition preserves more hard
consonants than the Nestlé text, e.g. Nazaret instead of Nazareth, Matthaion
instead of Maththaion, Kaparnaum instead of Kafarnaum (modern Kfarnahum) (e.g.
Matt. 4:13). However most hard consonants had turned to soft (t -> th, p ->
f, etc.) by that time, even in the Byzantine tradition.


This seems to suggest that the spelling differences reflect a change in Greek rather than Hebrew pronunciation.


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