James: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
