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“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence of Aramaic.” quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos — Download Open image

““... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence of Aramaic.””

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“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the…

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“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

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“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.”

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“Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots used only…

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“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

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“Phoenician writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Palaeo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic script (c. 700 BCE), which was adopted by Hebrew after Babylonian exile.”

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“The prevailing hypothesis continues to be that the Palestinian tradition is earlier than the Tiberian, although, under the influence of the latter, it developed…

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“Expressions used almost exclusively in poetry ... tend to be concentrated in the oldest biblical texts. Generally, it may be said that these items…

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“... Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.”

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“The nature of the data we possess suggests we value each and every tradition rather than creating a dichotomy between the normative tradition and…

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“According to Paul Kahle's well-known thesis, the Masoretic, especially the Tiberian, system of punctuation is not simply a representation of how Hebrew was actually pronounced in the sixth to eighth centuries; it also bears witness to the active intervention of the Masoretes, who deliberately introduced various corrections or reconstructions intended to guarantee that Hebrew woud be 'pronounced as it should…

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“According to Bauer, the oldest form of the Semitic verb is the imperfect, which does not indicate 'subjective' or 'objective' time but rather 'every…

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