Philip: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Hebrew Group, > > at the risk of me sounding a bit impractical, could there be just a very > slim possibility that just maybe, the Hebrew psalms together with their > original melodies/tunes, the way that for eg David sang them upon his > stringed instruments, could perhaps possibly have survived until this day? > > --so that we can truly say, "I will si-ing as Da-vid sang"? > No way, sorry. We don’t have the original pronunciations of the words, which were written down albeit without the vowels, so the probability of the tunes surviving which were not written down is, well, nil. > > Philip Engmann > > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
