The answer to your question (in the intro to your answer) is obvious:
I don't read Greek. Were I able to read Greek, I would not need to ask
whether Greek has a T.
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Rivka Sherman-Gold
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Read [mailto:J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:48 AM
To: yodan AT yodanco.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] FW: Ester / Esther
Hi,
Quoting Yodan <yodan AT yodanco.com>:
> Thank you. I am curious to know whey Ester, which clearly has a T (as
there
> is a dagesh in TAV) became Esther. I'm assuming that there is a T (in
> addition to TH) in Greek. Is this correct?
Did you look at the greek text in the link I sent you? The answer is
clearly 'No!'. There is only a theta in the place of the Hebrew Tav. I
think there are a number of things we need to consider here:
a) The pointing is late. This is no indication of how it was
originally pronounced.
b) We do not know with certainty how the Greek theta was pronounced by
the translator who chose to use the theta (let alone the general
pronunciation of that era) - it could have been a th sound or merely
an aspirated t or who knows
c) We do not even know with certainty the pronunciation of English
'th' at the time it was chosen in English translations.
d) All we really know with any kind of certainty is that the
pronunciation of English th has many variations even today in the many