Re: Jewish names

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:32:17 GMT Leo Caesius <leo_caesius@...>
writes:
>    As far as I can recall, there are two camps with regard to
> Biblical
> Hebrew Phonology.  The camp following Kimhi (the quantitative
> school) holds
> that there are five vowels in BH, distinguished by length, and the
> Non-Kimhians (the qualitative school) maintains that there were
> seven vowels
> in Biblical Hebrew, distinguished by quality (and therefore not
> marked for
> length).  The argument centers around the pronunciation of
> patah/qames and
> seghol/sere.
>
> -Chollie
-

Hmm.....then Professor Rendsburg would seem to be in the qualitative
school, although what he maintains in his article is that there were
actually only the basic 6 semitic vowels in Biblical Hebrew, and that the
whole variety of actual vowels were allophonic varients of them.


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