gfsomsel:I think you are misunderstanding Rolf. Even he has stepped back from the position of claiming that the Masoretes invented the pronunciation distinction.
This was a question that I never expected to ask. I had been taught in class that the Masoritic points preserved the original pronunciation. I didn’t question my prof, not even years later.
But if Rolf is correct, even some of the pronunciations that we thought we knew from the Masoretes are wrong.
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