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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: "'Karl Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, "'Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Why Semitic languages had no written vowels?
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:29:06 -0400

Karl wrote:

> (The fact that letters were being added to the DSS texts to
> indicate vowels is evidence for the argument that there were
> no native speakers of
> Hebrew, particularly Biblical Hebrew, at that time.)

Hmm. By this argument, would the writers of the early-mid eighth century
inscriptions with vowel letters from Samaria, Tell Qasile, Ajrud, and Beth
Shean also not be native Hebrew speakers?

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
Dead Sea Scrolls scholars' list owner,
http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot





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