RT Article
T1 Hebrew In The Incantation Bowls and In The Babylonian Vocalization Tradition
JF Journal of Semitic studies
VO 66
IS 1
SP 27
OP 51
A1 Frim, Daniel J.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1749534754
AB Babylonian Jewish communities possessed a Hebrew vocalization tradition in parallel to the better-known Tiberian and Palestinian traditions. Most of the available evidence regarding Babylonian Hebrew comes from vocalized manuscripts, which were produced during a late period in the history of the dialect. This article examines Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls as earlier sources of information regarding the Babylonian Hebrew vocalization tradition. Plene spellings of Hebrew words in these texts, along with other orthographic details, attest to characteristically Babylonian features, such as the preservation of short u, o, e, and i in phonological environments that trigger lowering to ɔ and ε in the Tiberian tradition; the correspondence between Babylonian a-vowels and Tiberian sĕgōl; and non- systematic differences between the Babylonian and Tiberian traditions.
DO 10.1093/jss/fgaa038