Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Yitzhak:

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The Bible itself is only some 20,000 verses.  Yet you and Karl have
> suggested
> that useful linguistic information can be extracted from the Bible, without
> any
> other input.
>

Wrong. Language specific information can only be from that language. Cognate
languages may or may not mirror what is in Biblical Hebrew. Without data, we
cannot know.

>
> …  But we can
> discern that the plural marker is always -m.


Not true. Look at the third line, far left, where we have a partial word
preserved which ends in -WBYM. Most likely this is a plural.

There is only one word that ends with a -M suffix, which in this context
could mean “their excavating”, not a plural marker as you claim.


> …  In fact, the Siloam inscription suggests that this is the
> orthography used by the royal scribes of Hezekiah.  Who else do you think
> copied the Biblical texts at the time if not these scribes?
>

That this inscription was hidden deep inside the tunnel, not expected to see
the light of day, indicates that it was made by the workmen themselves.

>
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
>


Karl W. Randolph.