1. It is not clear to me who these "Masoretes" are. Do you mean the
NAKDANIYM?
2. I would have expected a dagesh in the T of BITI (בתי), this T
coming after a letter marked by a Xirek, not followed by a Yod. I
tend to think that the dagesh in the T preceded the nikud by possibly
a thousand years, serving as an early reading clue or prop in the
absence of vowels.
3. The plural, or any other inflected form, may have come from an
earlier obsolete form of the singular.
4. I know they are irrelevant. I think we should refrain from relying
on a hypothetically "reconstructed" language like "Akkadian", for
which we are unable to verify for ourselves any claim made about it.
5. I have read the article (and also what the 118 TOQBEQISTIM had to
say about it) by Gilad Zuckerman of the University of Adelaide, South
Australia, and have seen the first page of this "translation" of the
Hebrew bible into lame Hebrew.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
<4. I am still waiting to see a good "proof", within the Hebrew
language, for an earlier existence of this spoken "gemination" (no
Arabic, please).
Isaac Fried, Boston University>
Why don't you look at the declensions of Bat (daughter)
with the dagesh forte in the Tav. Then ask yourself why
the Masoretes put it there.
Then take a look at the plural of this noun - Banot, and ask
yourself where the Nun came from.
And a mystery: Since you're by choice ignorant of the
most basic Arabic, Proto-Semitic, Akkadian, Moabite, etc.,
how can you know, one way or another , whether or not
these are relevant to biblical Hebrew.
Finally, in today's Haaretz is a brief note about the translation
of the HB into modern Hebrew for children.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1196311.html
Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY
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