Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jerry:

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Jerry Shepherd <jshepherd53 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Karl: "I’d still like to know what you’d call it when non-native speakers of a language mispronounce and misuse that learned, second language? When it is a whole society, so that their misuse changes that learned, second language to approximate their native tongue, how is that not corruption of that learned, second language? If not corruption, what do you call it?"

 

Jerry: "The question begs the question in that I do not admit that this is what happened.  I don’t believe the Masoretes misused the biblical text.  And their pronunciations, while there could have been some minor differences, were not substantial differences.  I would not call what the Masoretes' work on the biblical text a corruption.

This is a red herring fallacy. Is this what I should expect from you?

You still haven’t answered my question. 

I don’t how many times on this list I have stated that much of the change would have happened in the first few generations after Hebrew ceased to be a natively spoken language. In other words, the biggest changes in Hebrew would have happened by the DSS period. As a result, bringing up the Masoretes in this context is irrelevant.

 

Blessings,

 

Jerry

Jerry Shepherd

Taylor Seminary

Edmonton, Alberta

jshepherd53 AT gmail.com

 

Karl W. Randolph.