To: "'Karl Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, "'Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Why Semitic languages had no written vowels?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:29:06 -0400
Karl wrote:
> (The fact that letters were being added to the DSS texts to
> indicate vowels is evidence for the argument that there were
> no native speakers of
> Hebrew, particularly Biblical Hebrew, at that time.)
Hmm. By this argument, would the writers of the early-mid eighth century
inscriptions with vowel letters from Samaria, Tell Qasile, Ajrud, and Beth
Shean also not be native Hebrew speakers?