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  • From: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • To: Paul Zellmer <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] greatest achievment [sic] of all
  • Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:50:29 -0600

the question was and is simple; you choose to obfuscate it with assumptions
and presumptions that exist not.

and why do you try to elevate your self righteousness by hiding your
initial ad hominen attacks off list?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Paul Zellmer <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com> wrote:

> We have already discussed the fact that the list info was not written as
> a legal document. And, as for your “relevant” statement, you call out that
> fact that you omitted the qualifier “one of the” in your original question.
> Were you purposely trying to make the statement more likely to be objected
> to? Anyway, it still works out that you were trying to lead us into an
> analysis of an analysis, not an analysis of the Hebrew language or
> literature. As for the ad hominem attack, well, I consider the source.
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> What does the purpose of the rabbinical academies have to do with the study
> of biblical Hebrew? The list still exists to examine the document, not the
> authors or the modifiers.
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> Paul Zellmer
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> *From:* fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3:00 PM
>
> *To:* Paul Zellmer
> *Cc:* B-Hebrew
> *Subject:* Re: [b-hebrew] greatest achievment [sic] of all
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>
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> a. You will find the announced purpose of this forum at the top of the
> first page of this link.
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> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
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> b. You will find the statement relevant to this forum purpose on page 25 of
> the link below, last paragraph.
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> http://lc.bfbs.org.uk/e107_files/downloads/masoretes.pdf
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> If you cannot see that the purpose of "a" = the purpose of "b," all I can
> say ... there are none so blind as those who will not see.
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> The rabbinical academies did not expend countless hours and huge sums of
> money in order to facilitate some future, alien language translation. The
> document was created for consumers of the hebrew language, not alien
> language textual critics, attempting translation.
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> regards,
>
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> fred burlingame
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> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Paul Zellmer <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com> wrote:
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> Fred,
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> I said nothing about the import of punctuation relative to letters. I only
> said that the question about the relative greatness of the addition of such
> by the Masoretes when compared to all other achievements in the fields of
> literature and linguistics is textual criticism, not Hebrew language study.
> This is especially true since you, in this second post, claim something that
> the writers of the overview document never made, that they concluded that
> “punctuation marks enjoy identity of import with letters,” striving to make
> an analysis of their supposed conclusions the focus of this proposed thread.
> There are lists devoted to such areas of discussion.
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> So please explain, what are the grounds for your disagreement?
>
>
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> Paul Zellmer
>




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