Thanks for your instructive comments. This circumstance begs the additional question.
If we discuss here how biblical hebrew evolved and became chanted in 900 a.d.; how come we do not discuss here how biblical hebrew evolved and became written in 90 a.d.,; aka mishnaic hebrew? regards, fred burlingame On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Kevin Riley <[email protected]>wrote: > The lentition of the letters bgdkpt is usually placed much later. Many > think it came in after the Exile. So the answer is no, no C12th BCE Hebrew > speaker would have known of this. But after it did become part of Hebrew, > yes, ordinary speakers would notice. Anyone who used the wrong variant > would have sounded either 'wrong' or 'foreign', just like in languages today > that have the same phenomenon. > > This brings us back to a point often made: the Hebrew we have in the > Masoretic texts represents the way Hebrew was chanted in the second half of > the 1st millennium CE. As part of the tradition of Hebrew, it is part of > the evidence of how Hebrew was spoken in the 1st or 2nd millennium BCE, but > it is not, nor was it meant to be, a trascription of how Moses, David or > Ezra pronounced Hebrew. > > Kevin Riley > > > On 5/11/2010 1:27 AM, fred burlingame wrote: > >> that make life fun ... >> >> and so, in numbers 31:23 we have three instances of the hebrew word באש >> occurring, but we have pronunciation differing; "ya-vo ... va-esh;" >> "ta-ah-vi-ru ... va-esh;" and "ya-vo ... ba-esh." >> >> Is there some rule or reason to "dagesh" for "ba-esh" only once of three >> instances? >> >> Would the average 12th century b.c., shepherd or farmer practiced (or even >> known about) such subtle differences in his every day communications? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> regards, >> >> fred burlingame >> _______________________________________________ >> b-hebrew mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >> > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
