Stewart: There are much better pictures than that, I have a copy on my computer at home. It’s in a .pdf file discussing the famous כארו word, but the image is much, much better. When I get that better image, I’ll post it for the group.
Karl W. Randolph. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Stewart Felker <[email protected]>wrote: > Here is the highest quality image of the fragment I could find: > > http://i.imgur.com/wmds5kw.jpg > > Directly preceding the word I've circled in orange is the infamous כארי or > כארו. The DJD edition actually opts for the latter here, due to the > elongation of the final letter (although it's been pointed out that this > isn't ironclad). Whatever the case may be for this letter though, less > attention has been paid to the final letter of the circled word. In MT this > is simply ידי - but here the editors tentatively restore ידיה. > > Regardless of however we might interpret that reading, upon closer > inspection there are several difficulties with the final letter. There seem > to be _two_ strokes comprising the left hand side of this letter - one > curved somewhat inward, and one seemingly curved the opposite direction > (which itself appears to have another slight stroke coming off the bottom > of it, though this may just be a smudge). Further, there is a dot above and > slightly to the left of this letter; and although it's obvious that there > are several accidental ink artifacts in the fragment, this dot looks > conspicuous to me. > > Finally, is the larger mark a full space after this dot simply one of > these accidental artifacts? It somewhat resembles ג to me, although the > next word should be ורגלי (but the next clearest word that can be discerned > is עצמ]ותי], in the line below). > > > > Stewart Felker, > University of Memphis > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > >
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