To: "'Christopher V. Kimball'" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Re: number of consonants
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:18:02 -0400
You probably already know about this, but FWIW, Andersen and Forbes have an
appendix in _Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography_ (Eisenbrauns, 1992)
called "What Did the Scribes Count?" of which one of the sections is "Letter
Counts of the Bible." I don't have the book here, so I can't check what it
has to say. http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/2094
> Many assorted counts are available at:
>
>http://www.cvkimball.com/Tanach/Lists/Counts.xml .
>
> and I'd be glad to add others. A difference of 43 consonants isn't
> surprising, however, the question is whether there's some facet of
> counting I'm not doing correctly.
>
> Is there any way that one can come up with a total of 603,550
> "letters
> in the Torah" as attributed to Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev
> corresponding
> to Numbers 1:47, referenced earlier?