Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Randall:

Don’t you notice that your response is 100% subjective? You have no
contemporary evidence for Biblical Hebrew pronunciation, all of your
speculation is based on later evidence and theory.

The thing I find strange is that nowhere have I stated that I have found
proof that Biblical Hebrew was a CV language, instead I have merely said
that I have investigated the possibility and there is some evidence that
Biblical Hebrew MAY have been a CV language, yet you vehemently attack even
the possibility. I have also said that it could have been that some
consonants could have closed syllables while others always were followed by
vowels, like modern Chinese. I am still somewhat agnostic on that subject.

But there is no question that modern pronunciation is far from Biblical era
pronunciation. By “modern”, I also include the transliterations found in
the LXX. So what was Biblical Hebrew pronunciation like? Wouldn’t it be
wonderful if we could have a time machine so we could go back to interview
native speakers?

Karl W. Randolph.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> But a major evidence for CV language is poetry, where there is a beat to
> reading all letters as consonants followed by vowels. True, there are
> exceptions (copyist errors?) but verse after verse have rhythms when
> reading as a CV language that are lost when using the modern
> pronunciations.
> >
>
> Karl, don't you notice that your argument is 100% subjective?
> Yes, LA LA LA LA LA LA LA . . .
> has a  LA LA LA LA LA LA LA rhythm.  And you
> evaded a direct answer on Ratson's inner-Hebrew evidence. (Not
> to mention your continual negligence of all comaprative linguistic
> evidence.)
>
> You needn't answer this comment. It doesn't add evidence. And
> Ratson has already made his point.
>
> Randall Buth
>
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