Biblical Hebrew Forum

["kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

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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