
Rob
- Who would have guessed that reading about scribal habits could be so engaging. You will be introduced to aspects of the written Hebrew text that cannot be translated yet may convey some hermeneutical significance. Large and small lettering, dots over words, reverse lettering, these non-phonetic or non-lexical graphemes communicate meaning in a non-verbal way and are differentiated from vowel pointing, punctuation marks, and cantillation signs added later. The author discusses extra-ordinary Hebrew texts and the scribal habits of the First Temple, Second Temple and Early Middle Ages.