It is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet… A tittle is even more minute than a jot. Certainly the answer to a question of this kind has large theological and hermeneutical significance. Evidence the Hebrew Vowel Points were Inspired, Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel: The Culture History of Our Ancestors, Master Books, (Green Forest, AR, 2013), p. 114, Samuel Terrien, The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, MI: 2003), p. 25, Origen, Origen’s Commentary on John, book 6, chap.24; The Ante-Nicene Father, (ed. IX, The Works of John Owen, ed. The only difference between the two letters is that the bottom horizontal line on the beth extends slightly to the right of the vertical line, whereas no extension appears on the kaph.10)Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, 1986, p. 88-89 jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_10").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_10", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); However, earlier commentators, such as John Gill, taught that the word “tittle” was to be understood as the vowels points of the Hebrew Scripture. [58] Buxtorf Sr. had written his Tiberias, defending the originality and inspiration of the points, in 1620, to which Cappel had replied with his 1623 Arcanum punctationis revelatum; Buxtorf Jr. published a series of dissertations on the antiquity on the Hebrew language and its antiquity in 1645, and a specific rebuttal of the Acranum punctationis in 1648. The first, and less radical, considered that “the Masoretic punctuation is an interpretation of the text made by the Jews, probably not earlier than the eighth century, and that, accordingly, our public translations… close copies of the Hebrew pointed text, are in reality only versions at second hand, translations of the Jews’ interpretation of the Old Testament”[75] and the Hebrew text itself “is considerably injured, and stands in need of frequent emendation.” It put great weight upon early versions and made conjectures based on flights of fancy that greatly undermined the authority of Scripture. However, since they are not friends but enemies of Holy Writ, I often utter words which strongly oppose these points” (Luther on Gen 47:31) and “that most dangerous people, the Jews, falsify the words of the prophets with the points and distinctions; and their points, which are nothing but a modern invention, most assuredly are not to be preferred to the simple, correct, and grammatical sense.” (Comment. rev. [4] There seem to be very few possible exceptions to this view in medieval Judaism; the only two possible prominent candidates would be the ninth century Natronai ha-Sheni ben Hilai and the twelfth century Ibn Ezra (pg. Though the quotations from contemporary scholars, theologians, and apologists on the denial of Hebrew vowels in the original autographs of the Bible can be extended indefinitely; one, more recent of such statements should suffice. Gray, Edward McQueen, Old Testament Criticism: Its Rise and Progress From the Second Century to the End of the Eighteenth; A Historical Sketch, New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1923. [53] However, the necessity of coeval vowels and consonants was not universally recognized as necessary to maintain Protestant bibliology; Anglican John Jewel, who wrote against the Catholic convert Thomas Harding some years before Fulke’s pro-points work,[54] mentions that a variety of opinions existed about their age of origin, from Moses to the Masorites, but as the ancient practice of writing Greek without accents never prevented the common man from reading his language, so the absence of vowels in a Hebrew text never hindered the Jews from reading the Bible: “Certainly Mr. Harding knows that even now not only the learned of the Jews, but also the very children of ten years of age, are able to read without pricks or vowels.”[55] While some Protestants feared that anything less than points inscribed by the Prophets would destroy Scriptural authority and deliver victory to Rome, others argued that an unpointed text was still perspicuous and therefore yielded nothing to the Papist contention in any case.[56]. Thus, all spoken languages have vowels. For example, Christian author Origen (A.D. 185-254), though he was heretical in many of his views, was the only author of the Ante-Nicene age (A.D. 100-325) that had a working knowledge of Hebrew. Letters of Light is a unique and insightful exposition of how the letters of the alef-beis continue to be a source of creation and inspiration. Klauber, Martin I., “The Helvetic Formula Consensus (1675): An Introduction And Translation,” Trinity Journal 11:1 (Spring 1990), 103–123. Archaeological Evidence for the New Testament as the Word of God. Tov, Emanuel, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd ed. . . Aland, Kurt, “The Text of the Church?” Trinity Journal, 8:2 (Fall 1987) 131-144. ix, xi-xii, “Prolegomenon” to Ben Chayyim’s, [32] “The influence of Protestant scholasticism was both immediate and long-range… The dominant Reformed scholastics… were Beza, Vermigli, Adrianus Heerebout, and, most importantly, Francis Turretin (1623-87). . III. 296-297, Loonstra. If the Torah was to be “engraven” and “specified” on the stones so that “all the words” would be able to be “called by name” and accurately translated into seventy languages, specific, vocalizable words, including vowels, would have been required. Sanhedrin 11a; Seder Olam Rabbah 30 [quoting Prov 22:17]; Jer Taanith 2.1; Jer Makkoth 2.4-8; Bab. Men, how unfit, how unable, how foolish, for the undertaking of so divine a work! [17] In contrast with, for example, the opinion of De Valencia in the previous footnote. Would the people be able to “write upon [the stones] all the words of [the] law” (Deuteronomy 27:3) so that they could “keep all the commandments” (27:1) in them with an unpointed copy? He stated: I confess, considering the days we live in, wherein the bold and curious wits of men, under pretence of critical observations, alluring and enticing with a show of learning, have ventured to question almost every word in the Scripture, I cannot but tremble to think what would be the issue of this supposition, that the points or vowels, and accents, are no better guides unto us than may be expected from those who are pretended to be their authors. inspired by God” (The Formula Consensus Helvetica of 1675, Canon 2, quoted from TrinJ 11:1 (Spring 1990) p. 115) The Hebrew Textus Receptus (and Greek Textus Receptus, for that matter) are still being distributed by the Trinitarian Bible Society (U. S. A. Gould, William H, & Quick, Charles W., Philadelphia, PA: Leighton Publications, 1865. 106, Turretin, Francis. [27] This is evident in the fact that Bible translations were made from the TR, in the quotation of distinctively Received Text readings in Protestant confessions of faith (i. e, 1 Jn 5:7 in chap. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux, 1908. from Latin by Stephen P. Westcott, orig. i. cap ii., cited in John Owen. and notes by C. D. Ginsburg, 2nd ed., New York, NY: KTAV, 1968. Within these vowel classes, there are five vowel types (a, e, i, o, u), though not all are attested in each of the vowel classes. [25] Furthermore, in contrast with some willingness among the partisans of Rome to engage in lower criticism, usually with the intention of undermining the authority of the extant original language copies, Protestants generally believed “the original texts of the Old and New Testaments [had] come down to us pure and uncorrupted”[26] and consequently affirmed the preservation of both the New Testament Textus Receptus[27] and the 1524-1525 Hebrew Old Testament, the 2nd Rabbinic Bible edited by Jacob ben Chayyim, “accepted as the authoritative text (textus receptus) for four hundred years or more… [and which] fixed the vowel-letters, the vowel points, and the accents as well.”[28] Ben Chayyim’s introduction to the Masoretic Textus Receptus[29] assumed the vowel points were given by inspiration to Moses at Sinai[30] and his Massorah finalis included a Jewish treatise by Moses the Punctuator that took the same view, and “has since been reprinted in all the editions of the Rabbinic Bibles.”[31] This could not have been other than a point in favor of the Hebrew vowels among the Protestants. VII, p. 580 jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_24").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_24", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); However, “The points found numerous defenders among men like Gerardus, Junius, Gomarus, Polanus, Whitaker, Ussher, Rainolds, Buxtorf Sr. and Jr., Voetius, Deodatus, Lightfoot, and Heidegger”25) Thomas Ross, The Battle Over the Hebrew Vowel points, Examined Particularly As Waged in England,” p. 8; accessible at http://evans.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/04-BibleCorrectionExamples/Battle%20Over%20the%20Hebrew%20Vowel%20Points,%20Ros.pdf jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_25").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_25", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); among many others. Download and print your own Hebrew vowel flash cards. By inserting other vowel sounds, this could be translated “lamp.”16)Spiros Zodhiates, Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, AMG Publishers, 1991, p. 820 jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_16").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_16", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); Dr. Thomas M. Strouse wrote, “A Review of and Observations about Peter Whitfield’s A Dissertation on the Hebrew Vowel-Points” which was published in 1748; summed up some of the major arguments of Peter Whitfield’s Dissertation. But if anyone should prove to me, by clear evidence, that my opinion is opposed to that of our Rabbins of blessed memory, or is contrary to the genuine Kabbalah of the, [44] Those who advocate the originality of the points typically also argue for the originality of the Hebrew square letters found in the Reformation (and modern) editions of the Hebrew Old Testament and in the extant MSS of the Masoretic Text. The textual tradition of Hebrew Bible, an official registration of its words, consonants, vowels and accents. Jan 14, 2018 - Explore k mangan's board "Hebrew vowels" on Pinterest. (Also see Bab. Perhaps the alphabet that the Hebrew language uses today, which is in fact Aramaic, should really be called Jewish. pgs. Grammarians of the accents and diacritical points.”13)Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Harper Borther (New York, 1896) p. 344 jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_13").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_13", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); Thomas Ross recognizes “extrabiblical Greek demonstrates the clear propriety of employing keraia for a single point or dot.”14)Thomas D. Ross, Evidences for the Inspiration of the Hebrew Vowel Points, p. 9; accessible at http://faithsaves.net/inspiration-hebrew-vowel-points/ jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_14").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_14", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); The word Keraia clearly caries the Grammatical meaning standing in conjunction with “jot” (ιωτα) and the “law” as a written document (the Old Testament). When the Lord Jesus Christ stated “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18), it is normally interpreted by those denying the vowel points as expressed by Charles Ryrie: The jot is the Hebrew letter yodh [י]. How does the pointing, or lack thereof, of the text influence the doctrine of inspiration? Hugh Broughton, in his commentary on Daniel, published in 1596, upheld the same view, as did John Piscator in his 1594 Analysis Logica Evangelii secundum Matthaeum. The least of its evil is not yet thoroughly considered. Contraveners shall… be punished with the penalties by law established.” (pg. For example, John Morinus (1591-1659), Catholic convert from Protestantism, represents typical counter-reformation apologetic: The reason why God ordained the Scriptures to be written in this ambiguous manner [without points] is because it was His will that every man should be subject to the Judgment of the Church, and not interpret the Bible in his own way. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. [49] Morinus, Exercit. The latter view was generally held by the Catholics and used to support an infallible church and the superiority of the Vulgate in controversy with English Protestants, as with their Continental counterparts; if “the Hebrew tongue [is] a very nose of wax, to be turned by men which way they please, and to be so given of God on purpose that men might subject their consciences to [the] infallible [Roman Catholic] church,”[49] then Sola Scriptura must necessarily be abandoned. Hebrew diphthongs are combination of vowels acting as a unit and producing a unique sound: Other Learning Resources [72] Indeed, copying Horne, even the Catholic writer A. E. Breen in his 1897 A General and Critical Introduction to the Study of Holy Scripture stated that “By some… learned men… the origin of the Hebrew vowel points is maintained to be coeval with the Hebrew language itself: while others assert them to have been first introduced by Ezra after the Babylonian captivity… some few writers of respectability continue strenuously to advocate their antiquity.”[73] However, while apologetic for the inspiration of a pointed text did not cease in the Reformation era, but has continued even to the present day, in the eighteenth century the anti-vowelists seized the dominant position, which they have since maintained. For, whereas the letters of the Hebrew tongue have no vocals, they only had the skill to read the Scripture by the consonants; and thereby the vulgar people were kept from reading it, by special providence of God, as it is thought, that precious stones should not be cast before swine, that is to say, such as be not called thereto, as being, for their unreverent curiosity and impure life, unworthy” (, [56] Interestingly, while many Protestants feared the conclusions of Cappel in his. On the Continent, for example, by 1609, Amandus Polanus (1561-1610), professor of theology and Old Testament exegesis at the University of Basel,[19] argued for the inspiration of the points on the basis that Scripture teaches the inspiration of words, and not consonants alone, or merely thoughts, and that the faith was based on the words of the prophets, not of the Masorites. Miller, H. S., General Biblical Introduction, 9th ed., Houghton, NY: Word-Bearer Press, 1956. ‘They read in the book, it, the law of God,’ refers to Scripture; ‘distinctly,’ to Targum [“translation”—generally referring to Aramaic]; ‘and they gave the sense’, to the division of sentences; ‘so that they understood the reading,’ to the accentuation; others say, to the masoroth.6) The Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bavil Nedarim, 37b; accessible at http://www.come-and-hear.com/nedarim/nedarim_37.html jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_6").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_6", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); The footnote explains the word “masoroth” as “The term ‘masorah’ occurs in Ezek. The Lord, I hope, will safeguard his own from the poison of such attempts. Obviously they appear to be very similar. Woodbridge, John D., “Biblical Authority: Towards an Evaluation of the Rogers and Mckim Proposal,” Trinity Journal 1:2 (Fall 1980), 165-236. . The Septuagint version translated the Hebrew scriptures into Greek. xx, 37; the latter is due to the fact that in the Mishna, the word's primary meaning is "tradition". All spoken languages are composed of sounds generated in part by breathing, and linguists designate unrestricted air flowing over the vocal tract resulting in audible sounds as vowels. Compare also the very early MS AA discovered in the Cairo Geniza: :NCl NyobwCb Mgrtmw NCl djb yrqtm tway Crpmw qyqj btk adh htyrwa ylm lk ty hynba lo Nwbtktw. If God preserved His words as He has promised,18)see Heath Henning, “Deistic Inspiration or Preserved Inerrancy,” http://truthwatchers.com/deistic-inspiration-preserved-inerrancy/ jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_659_18").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_659_18", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", predelay: 800, fadeInSpeed: 200, fadeOutSpeed: 2000, position: "top center", relative: true, offset: [2, 2] }); then our English translations and commentators must be faithful to the fixed Hebrew vowels as read, and not play around with possible readings if those vowels were to be changed. It was done about 200 B.C. Levita had stated that no man was to “add to nor diminish from anything which the men of the Great Synagogue[41] have determined as regards plene and defective, Keri and Kethiv, the major and minor letters, the open and closed sections of the Pentateuch, &c., &c. Neither must he gainsay the statements of the Massorites respecting the vowel-points and the accents, the number of words which they have counted, and marked with mnemonical signs.”[42] If one replaced “the Massorites” with “the men of the Great Synagogue” in this statement, it could easily be thought to have issued from the pen of a Buxtorf. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1994). [5] It was “the tradition of the Jews, once so popular among the Protestant divines . to remark upon what Capellus says upon the Supposition, that there may be such Differences of reading, without Violence to the Sense . 1858. In the following charts, the Hebrew vowels are presented in four major vowel classes: short, changeable long, unchangeable long and reduced. Vowel marks were introduced to facilitate learning how to read and pronounce words. For example, Ararat and Urartu are spelled the same in Hebrew (no vowels in Hebrew so it would be “rrt” for both with their Hebrew letters), but pronounced differently. — He holds that accents are also Biblical; for R. Ika b. Abin said in the name of R. Hananel in Rab’s name: What is the meaning of, And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading? [20] Buxtorf Sr. took the same position that year in his Thesaurus Grammaticus. Christ . And, indeed, though the Points are represented as very numerous, yet there is the one point in the whole language, and that is Chirek [.] Yoma 9b; Bab. 49, Ginsburg, [16] While Calvin did not take a stand in favor of the inspiration of the vowels, he did follow the general consensus of his era and accept as correct the pronunciation. 59, Scott, ibid. Fulke, William, A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, against the Manifold Cavils, Frivolous Quarrels, and Impudent Slanders of Gregory Martin, one of the Readers of Popish Divinity, in the Traitorous Seminary of Rheims. When God revealed Himself so to Jeremiah, did the prophet write down the pointed Hebrew text above,[1] with the addition of accent marks, or only the unpointed consonants—or perhaps even only those consonants without the so-called vowel letters? The former pointing is seen in Ezech. [35] These theological presuppositions of the verbal inspiration and preservation of the textus receptus were brought to bear in the standard-bearing treatises for the originality and inspiration of the points by Buxtorf Sr. and Jr.,[36] alongside of philological and grammatical exercitation.[37]. 2) the translator could have mistook the ?Greek letter Upsilon “υ” for a Nu “ν,” thus rendering it as Annan instead of Aunan, or; 3) this same mistaken identity of the Greek letters could have occurred sometime in the past by transcribers and the English translator accurately rendered the transcribers mistake. So they developed a vowel point system to know how to pronounce it. Compare also Targum Yerusalmi II, where Fragment Targum Paris reads :NCyl NyobCb Mgrwtmw NCyl djb yrqtm abf Crpmw qqj btk adh atyrwa jbC ylym lk ty aynba lo Nwbtktw and Fragment Targum Vatican reads :NCyl NyobwCb Mgrwtmw yrqtm tybf Crpmw qyqj btk adh atyyrwa jbC ylym lk ty ayynba lo Nwbtkytw. Luther Poellot, St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 1986. . McClure, Alexander, The Translators Revived, Litchfield, MI: Maranatha Bible Society, n.d., orig. Now as our Lord refers to the least Letter (yod) in the Hebrew language, …so it need not be wondered at, that he should refer to the least Point in the language, from which all the rest come. i. exer. While the long and the short forms are significant in Biblical Hebrew—the difference in pronunciation is not noted in Modern Hebrew. His commentaries also reveal the existence of Hebrew vowel points. on Is 9:6), pg. ).” pg. [18] quoted in Ginsburg, pg. [Since] our Saviour Christ hath promised that never a prick of the law shall perish, we may understand the same also of the prophets, who have not received the vowels of the latter Jews, but even of the prophets themselves. I believe this is the most likely scenario. Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites, Judeans and their ancestors; however, the language was not referred to by the name "Hebrew" in the Tanakh itself. Sotah 48b; Bab. London: Oxford University Press, 1910. Contrary to many previous approaches, Benjamin Suchard shows that t See More “The fragments from Qumran, at this relatively early age, were written with Hebrew letters only, consecutively traced without word spacing. A. Quenstedt from Theologia Didactio-Polemica Sive Systema Theologicum, abr., ed., trans. Unger, Merrill F., “The Text of the Old Testament,” Bibliotheca Sacra, 108:429 (Jan 51), 15-43. [69] C. D. Ginsburg, translating and commenting on Levita’s Massoreth Ha-Massoreth in 1867, stated that the controversy started by Levita “cannot be said to have as yet fully subsided.”[70] Thomas H. Horne of St. John’s College, Cambridge, in his 1868 An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, discussed the vowel controversy and affirmed that the Masoretic origin of the points “is now generally received, although some few writers of respectability continue strenuously to advocate their antiquity.”[71] Horne still maintained that Hebrew was the original language. [24] The entry of the originality of the points into Lutheran dogmatic tradition, with sources for further study, appears on pg. Whitaker, William, Disputations on Holy Scripture, Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 2000, reprint, first published in 1588. [78] As, i. e., Horne suggests, pg. While the defenders of the originality of the points were overwhelmingly staunch advocates of Protestant orthodoxy, supporters of the Masoretic origin of the points fell into two distinct camps; the first, which took the position of Elias Levita, affirmed that the points, although written down in the Christian era, were authoritative expressions of the autographal understanding, while the latter, which took the position adopted by a prime mover in rationalistic Old Testament textual criticism, Cappellus,[38] viewed the points as unauthoritative and the Hebrew text as corrupt. 1: A Study of Theological Prolegomena, Saint Louis, MS: Concordia, 1970. 80-97, vol. The growth of anti-vocalizing criticism in England as a result of the Reformation debate led to severe negative consequences. Orlinsky, Harry M., ed, The Library of Biblical Studies, Jacob Ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah’s Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible and The Massoreth Ha-Massoreth of Elias Levita, trans. 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