Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  It is unclear to me why you keep referring to modern Hebrew pronounciation, 
when questions refer to a tradition  of
 reading which existed well over a thousand years ago.

  As for hearing or not hearing a shwa na in modern Heb., may
 I remind you of SHTUYOT BEMITZ? *

  Cheers,

  Uri Hurwitz    

     *stuff and nonsense                        



  I think you should add the explanation that the claim of "proper"  
pronunciation is a theoretical corollary of the dubious proposition  
that a schwa following a qamats is a schwa "NA", which should  
actually be "moved". I must say that I have never heard a-me-ru, sha- 
le-xu, which also barely sound Hebrew to me.

Isaac Fried, Boston University