Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] weak verb reference

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] weak verb reference
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:28:41 +0000

On 27/02/2005 19:10, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

...

"Aleppo version is more likely to be original ... "

Peter,

What is the sense/referent of "original" here?
"Original" pointing sounds like a oxymoron.


Well, original pointing is that intended by the first Masoretes to point a particular text. Presumably there was some such group of people who were the first to write down any particular point, although the pointing system may have evolved over time.

So, the sense I intended was that at this point the Aleppo Codex represents the pointing originally heard by the Masoretes and recorded in the first ever pointed text - or the first which noted dagesh in this kind of context.

The alternative is that the Leningrad Codex pointing of this word represents what the Masoretes heard and originally wrote down, and that the Aleppo version of it is a regularisation of an originally anomalous form. This alternative is ruled out if Leningrad is in fact copied, directly or indirectly, from Aleppo.

--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.1 - Release Date: 27/02/2005





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page