If you are saying that the Masoretic writers changed the holem in Isaiah in
those quotes from a vav with a dot over it to a dot only, how do you know if
they also changed it in Haggai 2:7? Maybe Haggai 2:7 had a dot over the vav
originally, and they wrote it with a dot only. Maybe people who change the
word to plural in Haggai 2:7 are actually writing it the way the Dead Sea
Scroll writers would have written it. (I hope I understood what you said in
your email, and this answer makes sense to you.)
You are assuming that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the original text because
they are older copies, but that does not mean they really older. The
Masoretic texts could be older, even if we don't have copies of it that are
older than the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Also, I don't think people should make major decisions about Biblical Hebrew
based on such a tiny amount of proof, that really does not prove anything.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Greifer
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[b-hebrew] authority of holem,
kenneth greifer, 12/24/2006