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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Acrostic Psalms
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:05:26 -0800

Bryant:

I had forgotten about the acrostic psalms. For me, that was one of the
first things that made me start to question what I had been taught. I
take this in connection with other evidence that indicates that sin
and shin were originally one letter.

On 11/28/06, Bryant J. Williams III <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net> wrote:
Dear Yitzhak,

I do not know; that is why I asked. Since the acrostic is a mnemonic device
the most likely reason is that the position is what is being emphasized not
the sound.

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III

Some of the psalms, e.g. 25, are not complete acrostics. # 25 misses a
bet, waw, qoph, doubles the aleph and resh with a final verse starting
with a peh, making it look that either the author left an uncompleted
work, modified an existing acrostic to give the message he wanted or
decided after writing a partial acrostic that he did not want to
complete the work as an acrostic. The same with some of the other
partial acrostics.

Karl W. Randolph.




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