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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] be-ne vs. ve-ne
  • Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:44:38 -0800

Fred:

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Zellmer <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com> wrote:

>
> To put this in more technical terminology, your stated opinion of your own
> question looks at the Masoretic markings as being prescriptive when they
> were actually descriptive. They were following the sounds of the language
> as they actually heard, without regard for *why* the sounds were pronounced
> that way.
>
>
> Paul Zellmer
>
> I’ll add to what Paul said, in that we don’t know how Biblical Hebrew was
pronounced when it was the language of the street and hearth. The Masoretic
points only indicate a local dialect of Hebrew as it was spoken at the
Masoretic time. And I accept it as descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Karl W. Randolph.




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