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  • From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] authority of holem
  • Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:10:01 +0000

Steve,

If you are saying that the Masoretic writers changed the holem in Isaiah in those quotes from a vav with a dot over it to a dot only, how do you know if they also changed it in Haggai 2:7? Maybe Haggai 2:7 had a dot over the vav originally, and they wrote it with a dot only. Maybe people who change the word to plural in Haggai 2:7 are actually writing it the way the Dead Sea Scroll writers would have written it. (I hope I understood what you said in your email, and this answer makes sense to you.)

You are assuming that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the original text because they are older copies, but that does not mean they really older. The Masoretic texts could be older, even if we don't have copies of it that are older than the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Also, I don't think people should make major decisions about Biblical Hebrew based on such a tiny amount of proof, that really does not prove anything.

Sincerely,
Kenneth Greifer

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