Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

> Vadim Cherny wrote:
>
> >What mistakes?
> >They invented vowel signs, not sounds.
> >
> >
>
> PLENTY of qere readings are wrong-
> umm... the vowel signs represent sounds.
>
> Jim
>

Jim, I agree that there are a lot of mistakes in the MT, including some in
which the masoretes themselves misinterpereted, but when the "invented" th
vowel signs, they were simply inventing a way to record the sounds that they
had heard or been taught.

Yigal