The point that one of my teachers made is that since the book of Joshua
starts with a waw-consecutive, it is meant to be read as a continuation of
the Torah. He made the point that throughout the TaNaK, there
are numerous
points where books start with a waw-consecutive and that this is
a literary
tool used by the authors to portray them as a linear story, and that we
should read them in that light.
From villandra AT austin.rr.com Sun Apr 18 02:23:04 2004Return-Path: <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
On 17/04/2004 10:48, Dora Smith wrote:guys
>...
>
>Whatever the explanation for dalet and tau morphing into th is, can you
>please provide an explanation that makes sense in light of competentpeople
>and entire temples full of them not ever pronouncing it that way?
>
>
>
Dora, the answer to this one is dialect differences. I guess that in
Buffalo you found competent people and entire classes full of people who
didn't pronounce English vowels the way you now daily hear them
pronounced in Texas. But that does not mean that Texans don't speak like
they actually do. Similarly, just because Jews in Buffalo or wherever
don't pronounce Hebrew like Yemenite etc Jews and didn't bother to teach
you their pronunciation, it doesn't mean that the Yemenites don't
pronounce it like they do.
--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
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