Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>]

It is worth noticing that by edict of the Hebrew Academy in Jerusalem, 
bending its will to popular usage, every initial B, K, P is now hard, 
independently of the ending of the preceding word.

It appears that there is tacit agreement here that the dagesh is a redundant 
marking. It is pity that the same HA does not find the guts to abolish this 
controversial eye sore from actual Hebrew orthography altogether, except in 
B, K, P and the qubuc.



Isaac Fried, Boston University