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  • From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Masoretic invention
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:27:41 +0200

> 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






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