Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Yitzhak,

In the text of the Hexapla that is known to us we find at least 10 
WAYYIQTOLs and 8 WEYIQTOLs.  They all have the prefix OU- where the 
Masoretes have WE- and WA-. Would Yuditsky and yourself argue that the 
OU-prefix represents the same original vowel, that is, there were no 
difference between WAYYIQTOL and WEYIQTOL in Origen's Vorlage? Or could 
the OU- represent two different original vowels? And in that case, which 
vowels?


Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo

Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> On 3/13/06, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:
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>
> > But once you come to the realization that a shwa represents the lack
> > of a vowel --- no more, no less --- everything because eaiser and more
> > sensible.
> >    
>
> Dear Joel,
>
> What is your opinion of the study cited here?
> http://hebphil.blogspot.com/2005/11/short-vowels-in-hexapla.html
>
> Also, in my recent research into the final -h as a m.l. I came across the
> following:
> Khan, Geoffrey, "The orthography of Karaite Hebrew Bible manuscripts
> in Arabic transcription" Journal of Semitic Studies 38/1 (1993), p. 49-70.
>
> I didn't have time to look into this deeply, but it seems like an additional
> interesting and perhaps so far relatively little known source of information.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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