Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

> If we have that much trouble hearing vowels in the same language
> but with different dialects how can we trust the Greeks to have
> heard Hebrew correctly? Reconstructing the pronunciation of Hebrew
> word based on a higly variable Greek written record seems to me
> to be close to futile.

Makes sense. But Greek and Latin forms of Iao is all that we got for ancient
pronunciation of the name. These forms are fairly consistent among authors
and periods. So we better don't dismiss them, especially with ridiculous
assumptions that Greeks heard ihie as Iao.

Vadim Cherny