Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Uri,

I can not wait for Yemot Hamashiach since I am sure he will be on my  
side.
The difference of opinion between me and you, and some other members  
of this list, is a result of the fact that I firmly believe we don't  
know how ancient Hebrew sounded, and accordingly I refuse to accept  
any argument based on semi vowels, short vowels, long vowels, and  
doubling. I also detest the so misnomered schwa NA(.
I think that leaning on Arabic is futile.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>   We agree on the something!
>
>   My comment to B-Hebrew was obviously sent before I saw your first  
> response today, for
> otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
>
>   On the other hand we differ on what you stated in your second  
> comment today, for
> the very reasons I had stated in my post to the list.
>
>   Uri Hurwitz                                                     
> Great Neck
>
>
> Laurent,
>
> It is possibly a mistake or a deviant. My Hebrew bible from school
> has a schwa under the L in both Genesis and Leviticus, and it is so
> also in the on-line bible of mechon-mamre at http://www.mechon-
> mamre.org/i/t/t0.htm
> Of course anything can be explained one way or another.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University