Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   Regrettably, by choice, you dismiss basic facts of
 Semitics. I refer to what you've written below, and
 also about assimilation of consonants and the resultant
 doubling - dagesh - in some cases. As well as to othe
r matters.

   Only when basic facts are acknlowledged, can theories, 
opinions or speculations be discussed.

   I wish you, and all list members, happy holidays.

   Uri Hurwitz                        Great Neck, NY 




< There is not  
a shred of evidence to the "exact opposite" claim that the dagesh  
marks an obsolete (and apparently bizarre) vocal doubling of a  
consonant.

Isaac Fried, Boston University >