Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Excess consonants in the WLC Torah.
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:16:46 +0300
Karl Randolph wrote:
> Anyways, because Maqef is not found in archaic Hebrew, I think it
> very easy for there to be disagreement on placement and number of
> Maqefs, I did not consider the total number of Maqefs.
I think Maqqafs denote the absence of a word division where a more
modern division would divide the words. This is suggested, among
other things, by many places where words separated by a Maqqaf
take only one "accent" for all of them. If a dot existed in archaic
Hebrew, so did its absence.