Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Garth:

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Garth Grenache
<garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Dear Karl,
>
> …
> Can you demonstrate that omicron-upsilon ever represents a long 'o'
> followed by 'w' in Koine Greek?
>

1) I never made that claim.
2) I am not an expert in Greek
3) I find the arguments you have put forward unconvincing
4) This is the B-Hebrew discussion forum
5) There is evidence from Hebrew sources that the 19th century invention
that your argument is based on is wrong
6) The original Hebrew pronunciation is lost, and we are not sure of the
Greek transliteration
6a) There is still question as to the Greek pronunciation
6b) The lack of certain consonants in Greek leads to questions as to how the
vowels were to be understood
6c) Is this a transliteration of a late, corrupted and/or dialectal Hebrew
pronunciation?
7) Therefore, there is no real reason to pursue this further, as we don’t
have enough data to answer the above questions.

>
> Garth Grenache
>
> About the only thing one can be pretty sure of, is that Gesenius was wrong.

Karl W. Randolph.