On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:56:36PM +0300, Randall Buth wrote: > 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.
Could You, please, provide citation? Thank You! > So go ahead and give brief synopses of Blau's points, they would be > good to share on the list. > -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
