On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
> If we discuss here how biblical hebrew evolved and became chanted in 900
> a.d.; how come we do not discuss here how biblical hebrew evolved and
> became
> written in 90 a.d.,; aka mishnaic hebrew?
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> Biblical Hebrew didn’t evolve (unless you claim that copyist errors are
“evolving”) and some of us ignore those pesky dots as being irrelevant. They
certainly are not authoritative.
Because those dots are attached to the Biblical text is the only reason they
are discussed. Were it not for that, they would be ignored, just as Mishnaic
Hebrew is.