Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Moshe:

In looking at the photograph that Yitzhak Sapir unearthed (he's really
good at finding information on the web) I have to disagree with you.
Looking both at the enhanced line, and at the recognizable yods and
waws on the rest of the scrap, that is clearly a waw, not a yod. Other
waws have that little hat that you mention.

I was surprised how much the image can be magnified without pixellating.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 9/29/06, Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> There are two issues: 1. What the true original text said 2. What the
> proper translation of the text should be.
>
> ... As to the DSS text, if you look at it and
> compare the way the yod is written and the vov is written, you will
> see that stylistically there are reasons to accept the text as having
> an elongated yod. If you look at every yod in the text it is not a
> short stroke but a short stroke with a 'hat'. (A short line to the
> left.) The vovs do not have this. IF we look at the letter in
> question, it has this hat. I believe that shows that it is a yod. The
> translator of the LXX/GB may have had the same type of text, or even
> one with the misplaced aleph, and that is the source of his translation.
>
>
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