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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Emerging consensus (and paedogogy) on "Waw Consecutive" phenomenon?
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:30:29 -0700 (PDT)

  To English speaking students who are introduced to BH,
the Conversive Vav usage must sound strange indeed. It
seems that at that stage of study, the instructor would
do well just to describe and illustrate the usage. If
enough  BH narration is presented, the students get used
to it.

  There is no need to introduce at the same time various
theoretical approaches which would just be confusing,
just as beyond mentioning its existence in other NW Semitic
ANE languages is sufficient, without specific exapmles
fron Mesha, for instance.

  And now I have a controversial suggestion about the
vowels: if intorducing reading in the current
semi-Sephardic pronounciation used in  Israel, just
explain that the Kamatz, Patah, hataf-patah are all
pronounced alike! The instructor can make the specific
point that when the Masoretes developed tham, they did
not mean to torture the beginning student!

Uri Hurwitz


 









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