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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Vision of Gabriel : David and Jerusalem
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:51:59 +0000

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Vadym Zhuravlov wrote:
> Comparing Great Isaiah Scroll and the text of "Vision of Gabriel" one can
> get
> the following observations.
> 1. David is spelled as DWD in "stone" text (lines 16 and 72), and excusively
> as DWYD in the scroll.
> 2. In the text of "Vision of Gabriel" Jerusalem is spelled YRWSLM (6 times),
> while in the 1QIsa-a both spellings YRWSLYM and YRWSLYM are used
> alternately.
> In both cases the "stone" orthography is more ancient than one of the
> scroll.
> On the other hand, as we already mentioned, stone text uses clear
> indications
> of post-biblical language, like ending -YN instead of -YM and preposition S-
> instead of ASR. This brings me the the question - is there a contradiction
> between the language of the text and its orthography?

The more appropriate comparison on orthography vs. language would be the
Copper scroll. See for example here:
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/copertx2.html

Yitzhak Sapir




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