Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:56:36PM +0300, Randall Buth wrote:
> 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.

Could You, please, provide citation? Thank You!

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

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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