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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Modern Hebrew pronunciation
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:37:03 +0300

Dear all,

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Thank you,

Yigal Levin,
Co-moderator, B-Hebrew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Steinberg
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:13 PM
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Modern Hebrew pronunciation

Ryan Clan wrote


Modern Hebrew pronunciation of these letters is certainly a
*practical*option, and there is a lot to be said for a practical,
working solutionthat lets you move on. It was this pragmatism mixed
with the juggernautof Modern Hebrew as a spoken language today, that
has made me think thatMH is indeed at work influencing and
pressuring the way we pronounce andteach biblical Hebrew. I can't
otherwise account for the differences inpronunciation taught of not
only the inseparable preposition, but alsowith the vowels, the
begadkephat letters, and the "waw." Or is it just ahappy coincidence
that the more recent grammarians teach a pronunciationthat conforms
so readily to modern Hebrew? Or perhaps some majordiscovery of
ancient pronunciation accounts for the trend? If ModernHebrew is not
at work here, then what is?

The problem of using pronunciations that developed thousnds of years after
biblical texts were written is particularly important when dealing with
poetry and wordplay - see http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb.htm .

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