Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s AT rad.com>]

> I disagree regarding the Siloam inscription.  

Yitzhak

Just out of interest, do you consider all the internal Ws in the
inscription,
such as B(WD (twice) and HMWC) as consonantal ?
I thought that most people agreed that this dipthongal contraction had
happened 
by late first temple times.

And how do you read the aleph in R)$ ?

Do you also disagree as to the final W, as in R(W ?

Y(J)S