Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>]

George F Somsel wrote:

> > What you are seemingly trying to prove is that evil Masoretes 
> > invented vocalization to confuse Christians. No. Masoretes only put 
> > down whatever they heard. And when they heard the word they don't 
> > understand, they wrote it down "as is" and marked accordingly. This 
> > is the honesty. Masoretes needed not to invent vowels: every Jewish 
> > boy learned them since bar Sheta. Tanakh was a living tradition.
> > 
> > Vadim Cherny
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> "Evil Massoretes"?  "To confuse Christians"?  Who said that?  I think you
> have a bit of a persecution complex. Get over it!

I'm trying

Vadim Cherny