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Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs

From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: JimStinehart AT aol.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:56:53 -0700

James:

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:09 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>
> Post-exilic scribes added thousands of interior yods and vavs to common
> words in the pre-exilic portions of the Bible, as vowel indicators in
> updated,
> plene spelling, and in thousands of other cases vowel indicators were not
> added to common words.

Were you actually to read Tanakh in Hebrew, you would see that that is a
fallacious claim.

The earliest examples of Semitic writing have examples of interior yods and
waws, yet there are some but not that many in pre-Exile writings.

>
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>
> Karl W. Randolph.

[b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, JimStinehart, 09/21/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, Jack Kilmon, 09/21/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, K Randolph, 09/30/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, JimStinehart, 09/22/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, JimStinehart, 09/24/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, JimStinehart, 09/29/2010
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, K Randolph, 09/30/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Interior Yods and Vavs, JimStinehart, 09/30/2010