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Daniel Meir Weil. The Masoretic Chant of the Hebrew Bible.Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1996. 397 pp. (English), 31 pp. (Hebrew).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Saul Levin
Saul Levin
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State University of New York at BinghamtonBinghamton N.Y.
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AJS Review , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , April 1998 , pp. 112 - 116
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1998

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References

1. The seven vowels of the Ashkenazic synagogue pronunciation in America and England are due to a rather recent reform-accurate as far as it goes, although leaving other major defects of the Ashkenazic pronunciation of Hebrew uncorrected.

2. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one So-called Prose Books of the Old Testament(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887), pp. 71–73.

3. In a brief and quite inadequate footnote (p. 134) Weil remarks, “The substitution merka'→ munahbefore zarqa'(B[reuer] 3.13) falls under the same heading [as the substitution of”, for when one or more unstressed vowels intervene, and for when two or more unstressed vowels intervene].”

4. See my article, “The Traditional Chironomy of the Hebrew Scriptures,” Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968): 65–66.