Blau should be studied, though I don't have the book. the existence of long and short vowels is not Blau's imagination, brilliant or otherwise, but is a datum in the field.
However, before the discussion is hijacked by a non-issue, it is also good to point out that accent shift is difficult to deal with in antiquity. We do know that Aramaic accent in the MT is different from BH accent in the MT. We also know that there were sub-standard dialect accents at the end of the Second Temple as demonstrated by some DSS Hebrew and BH texts where penultimate accents appear to have been used in some dialects. also, contrary to BH being conformed to MH, we have some evidence of Mishnaic Hebrew being conformed to BH. E.g., the spelling 'adan' in Mishnaic Hebrew for 'adam' has disappeared from printed texts. So go ahead and give brief synopses of Blau's points, they would be good to share on the list. -- Randall Buth, PhD www.biblicalulpan.org [email protected] Biblical Language Center Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
