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  • From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mishnaic Hebrew
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:02:10 +0100

> increased use of what appear to be materes lexionis (I am on record in that
> I doubt that materes lexionis were used pre-Babylonian Exile and those
> found in the text were full consonants). In other words, you want to see an

What does orthography have to do with a language?

(In my opinion, the different usage of matres lectiōnis in some
books of the Hebrew Bible can only show to which degree a particular
book was transmitted orally or in writing and doesn't say anything about
when the book was composed nor does it say anything about its language...)

P.

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU
EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU
EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA
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