At 07:30 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:Karl and Moshe, I can understand that this might well be true when you already have a good idea of what a text is supposed to mean, because you already know the story rather well from yeshiva or Sunday school. And this would surely have been true of readers from the late second Temple time until just before the Masoretes, as I suppose in those times only those already well educated in the Bible would have been allowed to read the precious scrolls.
... I prefer to read the unpointed text as it often makes more sense.
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Karl, this is very true. I am quite fluent, and I find that it is easier to read the texts that do not have vowels then the ones that do. Most of the printed Hebrew texts do not have vowels.
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