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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] the little things
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 19:23:55 -0700
Fred:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello Karl:
>
> Let me see if I understand correctly the current status of biblical hebrew
> ("BH") language, facts (versus faith).
>
> 1. We have a circa 1,000 a.d., BH vocalization code (nikkud); and
>
Which some people like myself consider untrustworthy and most likely
inaccurate.
>
> 2. We have a circa 400 b.c., written BH language, implied by the dead sea
> scrolls which contain documents composed in mishnaic hebrew and in BH
> language.
>
It’s more complex than that.
>
> 3. The written BH text that we have (masoretic text, "MT") might equal a
> much older language form, but we have no facts at this time which would
> support such claim. In other words, the language of the MT might date from
> 1400 b.c., or earlier, but no facts extant at this time support such claim.
>
Some texts, letters, etc. that date from before the Babylonian Exile,
sometimes centuries before, support the forms found in the consonantal
Biblical text.
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> Personally, I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. The
consonantal text is pretty well attested, not perfectly, but workable.
Karl W. Randolph.
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things
, (continued)
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
K Randolph, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, d.roe AT t-online.de, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
dwashbur, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, dwashbur, 11/05/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, dwashbur, 11/05/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
K Randolph, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
K Randolph, 11/05/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, K Randolph, 11/06/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, Isaac Fried, 11/06/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, fred burlingame, 11/06/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, fred burlingame, 11/06/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, K Randolph, 11/08/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/05/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, K Randolph, 11/04/2010
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Re: [b-hebrew] the little things,
fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the little things, fred burlingame, 11/04/2010
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