[Avodah] alphapbet.........

[Harvey Benton]

the questions in my mind are:
1. does it matter?? 
(eg, once established by Ezra Hasofer) it probably will not
change, unless we find the originall sefer torah, and findsome letter (passage) discrepancies [kidushim lamed hard-
to explain passages]

2. how do we know the "5" were lost??
is there a chazal that says so??
3. we are a people of the book, we have lost a lot, 

including the tagim, the sounds, etc, but how could we 

have lost entire letters?????
the soferim, and scholars, are, and were very medakdek
hb

hmz
















________________________________
 From: Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com>
To: Avodah Torah Discussion Group <avodah at lists.aishdas.org> 
Cc: Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com>; Zev Sero <zev.sero at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Avodah] timeline??
 
On 12/26/2011 06:42 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> my question is, what was there to learn from the
> tagim, when the original text (most believe) was
> not the modern hebrew that we use ??

I recall reading a theory (I thought it was on A/A, but searching
aishdas.org does not turn it up) that the *original* original script,
the one the Avos would have used, would be the Aramaic one (see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet>) -- Avraham was from
Aram, after all --; and that the Phoenician "ktav ivri" was adopted
after the conquest of Eretz Yisrael.

That would explain where the 5 final letter forms come from, and how
they were "lost, and Ezra reestablished them".

(Trouble is, the theory [as I remember it] has some holes, e.g.,
archeological evidence of Phoenician turning into Aramaic.  If anyone
else remembers seeing this, and where, maybe the fellow who wrote this
originally has some answers.)

--Chesky
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