Please go and read some books on the history of Semitic languages. There is
nothing at all strange about the development of het to 'ayin - it is found
in a number of languages/dialects. It is the het - 'aleph connection that
needs to be explained for Canaanite/Hebrew.
Kevin Riley
-------Original Message-------
From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
Date: 6/03/2009 7:08:53 AM
David Hamuel:
To my statement “As to heth vs. Aleph in initial position, some versions of
The Samaritan Pentateuch have )BRN for ‘Hebron’”, you wrote:
”Which version? MS?”
M23
Let me type out here the relevant small portions of four different entries
in
HALOT. The first three show an aleph: ). The last one oddly shows an ayin:
(.