Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Steinberg <david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com>]

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.