On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:09 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
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> Post-exilic scribes added thousands of interior yods and vavs to common
> words in the pre-exilic portions of the Bible, as vowel indicators in
> updated,
> plene spelling, and in thousands of other cases vowel indicators were not
> added to common words.
Were you actually to read Tanakh in Hebrew, you would see that that is a
fallacious claim.
The earliest examples of Semitic writing have examples of interior yods and
waws, yet there are some but not that many in pre-Exile writings.
>
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>
> Karl W. Randolph.