... The answer stands and falls with the view of WAYYIQTOL. As a matter
of fact, the WAYYIQTOL did not exist before the Masoretes! ...
This is not a matter of fact but of your interpretation. Even if there was
a real absence of evidence (and there is in fact plenty from apocopation,
and from distinctions in translations in LXX etc), absence of evidence is
not evidence of absence. There are plenty of things about ancient
languages of which we don't have direct evidence, only more or less
speculative reconstructions. The absence of evidence of how ancient
peoples spoke is not evidence that they didn't speak!
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