Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

Blau should be studied, though I don't have the book.

the existence of long and short vowels is not Blau's imagination,
brilliant or otherwise, but is a datum in the field.

However, before the discussion is hijacked by a non-issue, it is
also good to point out that accent shift is difficult to deal with in
antiquity.
We do know that Aramaic accent in the MT is different from BH
accent in the MT.
We also know that there were sub-standard dialect accents at the
end of the Second Temple as demonstrated by some DSS Hebrew
and BH texts where penultimate accents appear to have been
used in some dialects.

also, contrary to BH being conformed to MH, we have some evidence
of Mishnaic Hebrew being conformed to BH. E.g., the spelling 'adan' in
Mishnaic Hebrew for 'adam' has disappeared from printed texts.

So go ahead and give brief synopses of Blau's points, they would be
good to share on the list.

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Randall Buth, PhD
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