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  • From: David Steinberg <david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Vocalization and reading of Biblical Hebrew
  • Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:16:45 -0500

Karl,

Karl,

For both your points (below) see Linguistic Changes Affecting the Pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew 2000 B.C.E. - 850 C.E. According to Various Scholars http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_bib_heb_history.htm

Re sin/shin see Blau /Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew; An Introduction <http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/BLAPHONOL>/ sect 3.2. Roots such as shin-het-qof vs. sin-het-qof make it very likely that the phonological shin vs sin was still made in pre-exilic Hebrew

Re “bgdkpt” see http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_tequ.htm#bgdpt


David Steinberg


Did the “bgdkpt” letters have one or multiple pronunciations during Biblical times? Were the sin and shin originally one letter with one pronunciation during Biblical times, or two letters combined into one grapheme? We see that the Samekh and Sin had distinctive pronunciations in Judges, but were interchanged in Ezra indicating that they possibly had one pronunciation then. No, there is still some disagreement on the pronunciation of at least some of the consonants. That does not mean that we are clueless, rather that questions that cannot be answered remain.


Karl W. Randolph.




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