On the Historical Validity of the Vocalization of the Hebrew Bible

Bibliographic Data

ID3966352
AuthorsShelomo Morag (corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume94
Issue3
Pages307
Publication date1974-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/600065
OpenAlexW2312774258
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In biblical scholarship there still prevails a strong tendency to regard the vocalization of the Bible as superfluous and to consider the vocalization of those forms which phonologically or morphologically seem strange as corrupt. While it is true that there are forms the vocalization of which defies explanation, we should not surmise that any form which looks bizarre in its vocalization is necessarily corrupt and requires emendation. Many of these forms are genuine and reflect ancient phonological, morphonemic, and morphological features of Hebrew: some of them may be dialectal; others show peculiarities typical of certain periods in the history of biblical Hebrew. In the present paper the historical validity of the following forms will be discussed

Art · Biblical studies · Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Literature · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution

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