Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Philip:

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Philip <philipengmann AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Hebrew Group,
>
> at the risk of me sounding a bit impractical, could there be just a very
> slim possibility that just maybe, the Hebrew psalms together with their
> original melodies/tunes, the way that for eg David sang them upon his
> stringed instruments, could perhaps possibly have survived until this day?
>
> --so that we can truly say, "I will si-ing as Da-vid sang"?
>

No way, sorry. We don’t have the original pronunciations of the words, which
were written down albeit without the vowels, so the probability of the tunes
surviving which were not written down is, well, nil.

>
> Philip Engmann
>
> Karl W. Randolph.