Re: Hebrew and tradition

Hoffman is very clear that:

"when we look at current copies of the Bible, which follow the
Tiberian Masoretic tradition, we see the consonants of perhaps 3000
years ago and parts of grammar that may go back that far, but general
pronunciations that go back only 2000 years, and sometimes but 1000
years."

Maybe you just misunderstood the book? To me that sounds like someone who is
very clear that TH is not BH.

He also deals brilliantly with the LXX, Secunda, DSS, and even the very
early epigraphic material. I would recommend both _A History of the Hebrew
Language_ and _In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language_.

And just btw, your original notion that the book is worseless because you
"opened it at random in a bookstore and found the
assertion that Ugaritic has a vowel /e/" is just factually in error. He
never says that. Perhaps you mis-read it? Perhaps you were looking at the
wrong book?

~ Rachel


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