Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Karl Randolph wrote:
> 
> Finally, this mail list is dedicated to the study of Biblical Hebrew. In 
> view of the 
> above, arguing fine points of Masoretic pronunciations won't help much in 
> the 
> stated goal. Let Peter have the last word.

Actually, if you follow this link:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
you'll see that the list advertises itself as "Hebrew Bible List."  Also, your
beliefs of the Massoretic phonetics aside, the vocalizations do convey 
important
information and issues such as dagesh/rafe are generally treated in Biblical
Hebrew grammars.

Yitzhak Sapir