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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] to be or not to be
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:26:06 -0700

Fred:

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Yigal:
>
>
> I also find of interest the irrelevancy of the dead sea scrolls ("dss") to
> this forum; and yet, the corresponding relevancy of a 1,000 year later
> text,
> the masoretic text. Are for example, the Isaiah scrolls of qumran, copied
> (translated?) in the mishnaic hebrew; or do such dss scrolls contain
> earlier "biblical" hebrew language? I had thought the latter.
>
> Regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> The DSS Bible texts are relevant on this list and have been discussed,
however it has been found that on the whole, they deviate very little from
the consonantal text from a millennium later.

The non-Biblical texts are not relevant.

Karl W. Randolph.




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