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  • From: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
  • To: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pausal forms
  • Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:32:13 +0300


On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:


Bezalel Elan Dresher. "The Prosodic Basis of the Tiberian Hebrew System of Accents". Language 70 (1994). s. 1-52. ?

Prosody is too broad an explanation for the Masoretic marks. Prosody alone, for example, cannot explain five vowel quantities - they simply do not exist in speech, but only in singing.

The "liturgical chant" of a Biblical text was actually only a ritualized
form of learning/teaching towards a broader public.


I doubt that on historical grounds. There was no concept of learning Hebrew besides learning to chant the liturgical texts, not for the 'broad public.'

Vadim Cherny




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