To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Parsha question - Deut 8:8
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:22:34 -0700
Raymond de Hoop wrote:
> The pashta (8a) and the tiphcha (twice, 8b and 8c) are accents of a higher
> grade, whose distinctive force is not as strong as the zaqeph qaton, atnach
> and silluq.
This gives me a chance to ask a question that my Hebrew teachers were
unable to answer. I first learned these "accent" marks as ta'amim,
cantillation markers. Does anybody know how they went from being
melodic notation to being considered accent marks and phrase breaks?
Jane Harper
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