Isaac:
Look at the Masoretic points, and you can see that the second vowel had completely dropped out by the time of the Masoretes. What the doubled consonant following that second vowel in the LXX indicates is that the preceding vowel is unstressed at the time of the LXX pronunciation, but still present.
But even the LXX pronunciation is not the same as Biblical pronunciation. The latter has been lost, and I see no way it can be recovered. But we can still read the text.
Karl W. Randolph.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
In Gen. 41:45 I see the name אסנת transliterated by the LXX as
Ασεννεϑ (why the double n?)
In Gen. 26:34 I see the name בשמת transliterated by the LXX as
Βασεμμαϑ (why the double m?)
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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