Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Hi Chris,

I seem to recall that the latest issue of JBL (124/2) has a paper on just
this question, but I don't have the details at home, and the SBL website
won't let non-members (my membership has lapsed and I have not renewed it)
even view the table of contents.

Yigal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Weimer" <christopher.m.weimer AT gmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:16 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Ayin and Ghayin


> Greetings,
>
> I have asked about this at two different locations, one being my forum and
> the other being the Yahoo Group LXX. I have received excellent information
> from both, especially from Robert Kraft. My question is primarily about
ayin
> and ghayin and the dating of the LXX. Perhaps I jumped the gun a bit in my
> forum, but it still makes me wonder. Bob Kraft alerted me to the article
by
> Frederick (Fritz) Knobloch "Hebrew Sounds in Greek Script: An Analysis of
> Transcriptions and Related Phenomena in the Septuagint, with Special Focus
> on Genesis." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania (available
from
> University Microfilms), 1995. My question is two-fold. First, does anyone
> have this dissertation and second, does anyone have more information about
> the letter ghayin before it fell out of use in Hebrew? I was wandering
> because in the LXX (or rather, certain Old Greek translations) sometimes
an
> ayin is translated as a vowel and sometimes as a gamma. Could ayin/ghayin
> have been the same letter much like sin/shin was, but fell out of use
before
> diacritics? What about the disapparence of the uvular h?
>
> -- 
> kindest regards,
>
> Chris Weimer
> http://neonostalgia.com
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